The Ultimate Guide to the Anti-Ship Cruise Missile
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- The anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) is perhaps the defining feature of modern naval combat, at least when surface ships are being engaged. More than anything else, tactics, doctrine, force structure, and even warship design are built around this one weapon system. It truly is the naval artillery of the 21st century. One simply cannot understand modern naval warfare without first having a firm grasp on the ASCM. Despite the development of anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) and hypersonics, the anti-ship cruise missile is, and will remain, the dominant arm of modern naval forces well into this century. This guide will explore the origins of this weapon, the way it is employed and the revolutionary impact ASCMs have had upon naval operations and tactics, the impact it had upon warship design and the western, soviet, and soviet successor anti-ship cruise missile design and employment philosophies. It is everything you need to know (and maybe a few things you don't) about the anti-ship cruise missile.
0:00 Inception
10:40 The Battle Network: a New Kind of Naval Combat
31:54 The Offence Defence Contest
55:56 The Western Sea Skimmers: Harpoon and Exocet
1:18:27 The Soviet Solution: Speed
1:41:23 The Soviet Successors: Russia, India and China
1:51:45 Stealth: Current Generation Western Systems
Some, but not all, of the material referenced in the preparation of this video:
Roy M. Smith. 2010. "USING KILL-CHAIN ANALYSIS TO DEVELOP SURFACE SHIP CONOPS TO DEFEND AGAINST ANTI-SHIP CRUISE MISSILES", Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey.
core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36699...
KENNETH P. WERRELL, 1985. "The Evolution of the Cruise Missile", Library of Congress.
media.defense.gov/2017/Apr/07...
JOHN STILLION, BRYAN CLARK. 2015. "WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN: SUCCEEDING IN 21ST CENTURY BATTLE NETWORK COMPETITIONS" Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA).
csbaonline.org/uploads/docume...
John C. Schulte. 1994. "An Analysis of the Historical Effectiveness of AntiShip Cruise Missiles in Littoral Warfare". Master's Thesis. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey.
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADB192...
Matthew J. Wemyss, Maj. 2016. "The Bear’s Den: Russian Anti-Access/Area-Denial in the Maritime Domain", Master's Thesis, AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE, AIR UNIVERSITY, USAF.
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1031...
2 hours, 16 minutes and 21 seconds and not a single ''like, subscribe and comment''. What an amazing video, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you very much.
The very best do not have to grovel for subscriptions or likes, they earn them automatically because of the amazing quality and accuracy of their content.
I am a retired USN Surface Warfare Officer. For three years, I was a Naval Sea Systems Command missile test officer. We lived and breathed air defense against the cruise and high diver supersonic missile threat. Your presentation is amazingly accurate and superbly constructed. Your assessments of the relative capabilities and limitations of each system, both offensive threat and defensive systems are very accurate. I salute you Sir. Very well done! Bravo Zulu!
Sir, firstly let me thank you for your service. I'm a retired British Army Senior NCO, my 22 year career covered the end of the Cold War and a handful of years afterwards. My question to you concerns Red Storm Rising. It was required reading for my unit and I was wondering if it was the same for you given your role.
After almost two decades studying Warsaw Pact (WP) tactics, doctrine and various details of enemy SOPs. As well as familiarisation with the West German terrain etc. All the things a professional soldier and student of Sun Tzu would be expected to do. The USSR and WP disintegrated before my eyes, and poof! We were deployed to the Middle East, to prepare for war with Iraq in a totally alien desert environment. The life of a soldier SNAFU.
Huh. Surprised you didn't correct them about the whole "man-in-the-loop" fire command authority used to operate the Phalanx CIWS - unless that threat follows the parameters of an anti-ship missile.
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Could not have said it better
This is what happens when you go to historians and military experts instead of video gamers who have wikipedia!
Damn! I was thinking it was anti-cruise ship missles!
I love red storm rising, you just made me re read the whole scene again with the backfires. However, I’d argue the genesis of the anti ship missile is the ASM-2 bat, which was a radar guided fire and forget munition deployed before the the fritz X and used for far longer than it after the war.
I think the best german comparison would be the HS-293, since Fritz-X is an Bomb while Hs-293 is rocket powered
Hs-293 would honestly be the better example of the very first ASCM, being rocket boosted, it has longer range than the Fritz-X, and in terms of usage, it saw even more widespread use than Fritz-X
Also fun fact, Imperial Germany has developed gliding bombs even back in WW1, dropped from an Airship
@@twddersharkmarine7774 See the RAE Larynx of 1927....
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God bless your diligence and hard work!
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Watch some Drachinifel! I was never into water war until I watched his videos
@@Frenulem thanks for the reccomendation! Ill check it out! :)
I was the same until i read Red Storm Rising a couple months ago, somehow made me realize naval and sub warfare, while not as cool as air warfare, may be as interesting.
Same here, its kinda outside my wheelhouse and I feel hella sad about unarmed sailors getting killed without much agency.
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I am impressed to say the least.
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You and Perun should definitely get together!
Hey mate, great to see yet another video! I think I speak for everyone when I say I really enjoy these in-depth historical biographies on weapon systems and military history. Thank you! Also would you think about doing any live stream Q&As? I heard you mention that would be a possibility in one of your tiktokers Q&A videos and I want to say that would be great. Anyway, really thank you for the videos, they are really great and quite unique in that there isn't much like this (at least this in depth). Have a good day man!
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No you don't.
I don't like war mongering
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I haven't watched this yet but oh man am I excited, two hours about anti ship cruise missiles in the content I unironically crave, I wish we had more people like you on TH-cam.
Now you have to go watch a video about SLQ SEWIP systems.. because amazingly he totally forgot them 😂
Being a former US Navy airdale, I learned very little of surface warfare tactics and weapons. In my opinion this video is a must watch for former and current sailors to know what modern navies are up against if a peer to peer conflict ever broke out at sea.
Do you think aircraft carriers are still relevant?
A good question. Yes they are. Aircraft will always be the primary launch platform for missiles due to speed and stealth. The arrival of unmanned wingmen will change the game even more.
I forgot to mention their role in sensor altitude. F35 for example gives a huge increase in radar and IIR sensor reach. Mapping enemy naval and land based systems.
if you learned very little than us navy is absolute shit. even in russia there's comprehensive mandatory training about all this
@@sbkarajan grandpa doesn't know about DF-21. carriers are worthless. they will be sunk in seconds. there's no countermeasures. there's a reason why many countries are staying away from carriers having only a small expeditionary force for small conflicts.
you can bet that in a large war, in the first hours all carriers will be sunk.
I just want you to know that you're very good at this kind of presentation. I have interest in your content but I can't listen to someone go on about a specific class of missile for two hours unless they've really put the presentation together correctly. This is a very good product and you should be proud.
Sweden developed a sea skimming anti ship missiles for its fleet of A32A Lansen strike aircraft in the 1950s.
It was the worlds first sea skimming anti ship missile when it entered service in 1961 as the RB04C.
This missile was essentially impervious to air defences as nothing at the time could reliably shoot down a sea skimmer for 15 years.
Its origins can literally be found in the V1 as the V1 autopilot was copied given a roll axis gyro and used in the missile.
Sweden had the great fortune to be oposite the german test ranges in WW2 so lots of V1 and V2 missiles landed in Sweden and could be studied.
It is ironic that the british air defence systems (Sea Slug and Cat) blamed as obsolete where newer systems than the RB04 in service.
The missile was one of the most top secret items in the Swedish military, you where not allowed to visit their dispersed storage cites in military vehicles or clothing.
Hence the missile was never exported.
It basically did everything the Exocet did in 1975 back in 1961 it just had shorter range.
The RB04 lives on in the RBS15 class of missiles which reused the missile body and warhead, and started life as RB04 Turbo
Hardly impervious to air defense, resistant to the crude first generation surface to air missile systems. The close-defense systems of the time, such as the superb French, Italian, and American automatic guns would find it a trivial target.
@@jamesharding3459 Tracking a target low to the sea is difficult and monopulse fire control radars hardly existed in 1961 which is the accuracy you need.
Proximity fuzes for anti air projectiles of the 10-12cm variety where not optimized to destroy targets so close to the surface as 2-10 meters.
@@AdurianJ Not attainable with 1960’s flight controls. 20-50m was the minimum that could be realistically attained under operational conditions - unless you wish to kill fish instead of ships.
@@jamesharding3459 There is a reason the altitude control system took the most time to develop.
But 10m was achieved operationally in 1961, if the weather was bad a higher altitude was selected manually.
@@AdurianJ Grapeshot-type charges could probably have been an easy fix for the very last ditch self defense effort if the proximity fuse is found too difficult to optimize, as long as the missile can be at least tracked.
Calling the hit on Hood a "crippling blow" is kinda like saying JFK died from a head injury lol
Technically it is correct if something of an understatement.
Also oxygen is good for you and Jeffrey Dahmer was a bit of an asshole.
JFK lost his mind. Rimshot
British understatement, “it’s only a flesh wound”.
Huh?
The AS-5 Kelt was used in Red Storm Rising as decoys by the Badgers.
Its a 1950s missile and looks like a small fighter plane without a cockpit.
I've heard they were commonly used as targets to train SAM operators
It doesn't look like a fighter without a cockpit, it IS a LA-15 without a cockpit
More importantly it flies at a plausible speed and altitude for a manned jet so with nothing else to go on radar operators will likely misidentify it as one, as happened in RSR.
The USN fielded the first fully autonomous radar guided glide bomb "ASM-N-2 Bat" during 1944 and used it to some effect against japanese shipping from stand off (20nmi) ~33km distances
What a fantastic way to use 2 hours! Thanks for the detailed and interesting analysis of missile warfare
But he totally fucked up and didn't include SLQ SEWIP systems... So huge parts of this video need amending and additions
I love this channel.
I've listened to your videos about the Aus/SEA theater a few times and they're great.
Jeez, talk about well researched, well written, in-depth, long-form video. I had to take a brain-break in-between to digest the flow of facts. Just the sheer volume of video used to illustrate a really well-made one! Amazing achievement. We in Britain thought, as any superpower does, that Argentina would be seen off quickly. My stepfather was second in command of H.M.S. Sheffield, under Captain Salt, you can imagine his shock at finding himself in the north Atlantic in the first week of battle. This is not generally known, but he told me, in order to mitigate the threat of the Exocet after the Sheffield/Atlantic Conveyer, Margaret Thatcher armed a nuke being carried by submarine, aimed it at Montevideo, and gave President Mitterrand, an ultimatum to give Britain the launch codes of every Exocet carried by Argentina, or face the consequences. I am not sure if that is why there were no more Exocet kills but Argentina had bought enough of the anti-ship missiles, and only used 9 or 10 against a huge task force? The Sheffield was the first Argentine kill, and no nation in war stops using a weapon unless something else is in play, because there were 40 ships out there under British flags. We now know Israel and France, where both helping Argentina in that war, and America was helping both. Who can you trust in war if you can't trust nation's, you have helped before? And so much for the special relationship between Britain and America.
"This is not generally known, but he told me, in order to mitigate the threat of the Exocet after the Sheffield/Atlantic Conveyer, Margaret Thatcher armed a nuke being carried by submarine, aimed it at Montevideo, and gave President Mitterrand, an ultimatum to give Britain the launch codes of every Exocet carried by Argentina, or face the consequences. I am not sure if that is why there were no more Exocet kills but Argentina had bought enough of the anti-ship missiles, and only used 9 or 10 against a huge task force?"
It's not widely known because, to be frank, its total bollocks. Literallly nothing there has any basis in reality.
No Polaris boat was shifted from CASD patrol.
Montevideo is in Uruguay.....not Argentina.
President Mitterand is in France, and the idea we'd threaten France with nuclear weapons, a fellow NATO state also armed with nuclear weapons is laughable. In reality the French helped the UK to a huge degree, even sending Super Etendard to exercise with the Task Force so that the ships could easily recognise the Agave radar signature that presaged an Exocet launch.
There is also no such thing as 'launch codes' on anti ship missiles. The UK perfectly understood how Exocet worked for the simple fact that we were the biggest user....we had more Exocet on the ships of the Task Force than the Argentinian's possessed in total.
The Argentinian's had a grand total of 5 air launched Exocet delivered that could be fired from Super Etendard. The French ceased deliveries at the start of the war and assisted the UK in making sure no more got to Argentina through other routes. They fired all of them. They got 2 hits. A further Exocet hit was from a trailer mounted missile system that they had taken from a warship in Argentina, flown into the Falklands on C-130 and jury rigged.
This was very illuminating. As always.
I recently read a book about the history of the early west german navy in the cold war. For a time their major problem was that they had absolutly no counter to soviet ship lunched anti ship missiles. Making a defence of the baltic sea exit very difficult indeed.
You're incredibly thorough and it's a treat to watch. Thanks for cranking these out !
Having followed Drachnifell's channel for a while, I like the way you have interwoven the different topics. At least for the WW2 part. Very well informed video, as always!
I just stumbled upon your channel today and this is first video I watched. Bloody amazing content man, very impressed. I haven't found anything as in depth as this video. Keep up the high quality work!
watch the video on nukes and chemical weapons and f35 very good
I’m so glad I discovered this channel… I’m leaving a comment so that the algorithm will hopefully pick up
Great video! Your descriptions of the battle net and kill chain were really interesting! As a former mortar man, the ability to maintain that communications net is crucial. For some time this idea has been creeping down tge food chain and now it seems it might soon reach down to the infantryman level. It would be interesting to hear a history of battle nets and how future iterations and applications of networking might change the battlefield at different scales. And what countermeasures are there to disrupt the enemy's com tech. All the best!
I love your videos man! congratulations for this great job. I'm really grateful for having this kind of content available on youtube!
There aren't too many youtubers that keep my attention for 2+ hours but you are definitely one of them! I love your videos! Keep up the amazing work!
This is a better brief than most I've seen inside the military. I'd not hesitate to use this as training material.
You and Perun are my go to entertainment . You Aussies are amazing! please keep it up!
Another masterclass in comprehensively researched and well presented briefing. Thank you.
Masterclass? Dude totally left out SLQ SEWIP systems... That's a huge error
@@Boeing_hitsquad you make a good point. Thank you for reminding me of the SLQ-32 block 3 upgrade program. I’d forgotten all about the evolving non-kinetic aspect of anti-ship missile defence. 👍
You and Perun make God tier content, I would love to see you guys do a livestream together.
This guy has a phd in history isn't perun a gaming channel that became a wiki warrior with the invasion of ukraine?
Doesn't seem like it would be worth his time.
That said, since you are talking about perun on this channel I will go check him out.
Amateur channels quickly start pumping out misinformation so my hopes aren't high but again, if mentioned in the same sentence as a real expert ...
Perun is garbage, just Wikipedia nonsense. People get fooled by production quality.
We need a collaborative effort from the holy trinity of Australian defence channels: Perun, HypoHystericalHistory, and Animarchy.
@@BeKindToBirdsAny feedback on Perun yet?
@@stephendwyer4659 He is quite good. He is actually a member of the military community, he works in defense logistics for the Australian government I believe so he does have relevant expertise. More to the point he does not do deep analysis anyway, he stays at high levels and so doesn't ever risk making a mistake.
That said his utility is limited by that same distance from depth and you are a russian bot,name name, random number account
Excellent in-depth review of history and current status of ASMs. Thank you!
Outstanding work! This is the most comprehensive guide one can find without a security clearance.
This is my favourite TH-cam channel.
Thankyou for the excellent documentary.
Documentary, because it’s more than just content.
Another wonderful, informative and bloody well produced video. Love em,..watch em more than once.
I thought this came out longer ago than it did.
So probably just goanna watch it again. Love you're work!
Another awesome presentation. I really like your delivery of the content, very easy to listen to. Well done again mate.
Just stumbled upon this great video! Excellent research and really enjoyed how you described the transition from WW2 to Cold War strategy/systems.
Love these feature film length deep dives, can't wait for the next one!
How on earth do you not have at least 100k subs?? 😮 Doesn’t make any sense. Your content is second to none. Thank you!! 🙏
I thoroughly enjoyed the description of the attack of the carrier group by Bears and Backfires. Great video
Been waiting on your next video; didn't disappoint!
The very best walk-thru video. Amazing job well done.
If you find yourself exploring Southern California; take Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) from LA to Ventura county. Visit Missile Park, just outside Point Mugu Naval Air Station which displays numerous aircraft & missiles that were tested at Naval Air Station Point Mugu. Displays date from 1950s to present.
Fantastically presented material here, definitely going to watch more, keep it up mate!
This is my first time watching your videos. Great job. Very informative and thorough.
What a great and comprehensive analysis! Thank you!
you put a lot of work into your work and it shows
Always looking forward to your next video!
My favorite TH-cam channel. Awesome work!
Fantastic video. Quality from beginning to end!
Well, it's hard to hope for a better overview than that! Excellent video! I learned a lot!
Not just informative but really entertaining, great stuff, cheers!
Once again OUTSTANDING, learning has never been such a pleasure thank you.
Awesome video, honestly. I was very much fascinated with both military aviation and navy, and your video, narration and analysis are just stellar. And, to be honest, it is really heart-warming when english-speaking authors dont miss or degrade the /eastern/ weapons, tactics, etc. If you perhaps need assistance in translating or in pronunciation of soviet/russian documents for future videos, i can assist to the top of my ability. But i am, of course, not a proper translator, just an enthusiast. Thanks for the video anyway)
I always listen to these while I’m doing stuff so I miss bits and can justify listening again. Makes them last even longer
You forgot about the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile which either complements or supersedes the Phalanx.
those first pictures really show that camo paint job and what it does better than Ive ever seen. Blending in has to be all but impossible but it sure jumbles it all up. Makes it super hard to tell what you are actually looking at. That first one had that line on the bow that made it look like it could be 40ft shorter than it really is. Always amazed at what you can learn from these videos. I cant even imagine what it would feel like to be on land back in the WW2 days of total destruction and seeing the Navy show up. I will always be in aw of the conventional guns, but the invention of guided missiles had to be a change on the level of air support and black powder.
Exceptional video, highly detailed. Loved every second!
Phenomenal information as always. Thanks so much for the effort and hard work in making such high quality videos!
Keep up the good work!
And yet he didn't include SLQ SEWIP systems... Kinda massive omission
@@Boeing_hitsquad Calm down. It's already a two hour video.
Another outstanding and comprehensive contribution. I love both the great content of the current environment as well as the historical context.
And yet he missed SLQ SEWIP systems.. which are the most important module on US ships responsible for defence
This was truly incredibly! A masterclass. I appreciate your massive effort!
Well, I know what I'll be listening to on my drive to/from work. Thanks mate, interesting and relevant topic.
i like that u used red storm rising as an example, keep up the good work i love your content
Favorite channel as of late, keep it up!
Fantastic! This survey is staggering for its completeness and clarity. Congratulations.
Such an informative and well presented episode,looking forward to more
Great to see another video! Please keep them coming.
A really well written and researched video, thank you very much. You win my subscription.
Ultimate this is! So many questions answered, TY.
Excellent, informative, thorough, the best! TY.
This just made my day,nice work.
Nice Video :)
Two more examples from WW2 that would fit the technical definition of an Anti ship (cruise) missile a bit better than the Friitz-X: The US Radar guided ANM N-2 Bat and the german MCLOS/TV guided Hs 293, which was the most successful anti-ship missile until the introduction of the Exocet in 1975.
Im pretty sure the Fritz-X was closer to an LGB than a cruise missile but the bat is certainly a very underrated weapon.
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I don't remember where he got his is source from, but Lazerpig (on What Sank The Moskava) read from a maintenance report that the ship was heavily malfunctioning due to a lack of maintenance. They couldn't even use their missile defense system or even detect them while using communications or something.
Yeah maintenance is often ignored when talking about these things
No smoking signs were stolen you mean ?
I believe you are correct. Explains why many of the aerial photos take by western observing aircraft that have been released to the general public will show a tug boat accompanying the old Soviet era capital ships.
That's what happens when you have a corrupt government. Putin ultimately destroyed the Russian economic system and the military as well.
Echoes of Type 42 in the Falklands
Remarkable work, this video is so well done.
one-third the way through this epic........the grass is gonna miss out on being cut and the windows will stay dirty, I'm digging in for the long haul......an excellent presentation on a very contemporary subject. Thank you
This is a great v video fella, well done to you all 👍
Mind boggling and accurate. Very well put together and presented in an easy to follow, logical order.
Clearly "masters" level research of the highest order. From an ole "digger" and retired historian, well done sir !
Amazingly in depth; excellent
A lot of work this, Brilliant, Great video, liked and subbed.
I really enjoy your videos on modern topics, like this one. Please make more, thanks
Great and interesting video as always. Just wanted to say I really enjoy your modern weapon / system analysis more than the historical videos, I know its one of your pet loves, but just wanted to share my thoughts. Thanks for your entertaining videos.
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Another excellent video !! Thanks for making it
Love the video, I thought the “rapid dragon” concept brings out the best in the LRASM!
Excellent as usual.
TY Sir!
Holy shit man, 2+ hours of content in one video. Time to kick back and enjoy
Thanks...another great video! I particularly enjoyed your referencing of Clancy's Red Storm Rising....coincidentally, I've been re-reading it now...and I'd always considered it a logical way to take on a carrier battle group. You cover all the questions I can think of, and I look forward to your next one. If you're looking for more idea's....I'd love to see more on the Soviet Union's take on fighting a major war. After the events of WW2, there's not much available on TH-cam.
Audible has a great read of Red Storm Rising. 31+ hours long if you're curious. I've read it a dozen or more times. Such a great book. I'd love a movie based on it but am afraid Hollywood would ruin it like Starship Troopers.
I'm listening to this on Friday at work lol keeps me zoned
If you do a collaboration with Perun, I will die happy.
Throw Lindybeige in the mix.
GREAT video. QUALITY content. Thank you.
You are correct: we keep hearing the carrier spelt the end of Battleship, but a carrier cannot do shore bombardment and a carrier can be taken out as easily as a battleship by planes. That is why you won't send a lone battleship in battle after WWII and you won't do that with a carrier either.
It was because of how monumentally expensive battleships where, able to bankrupt nations. They were literally big assets nobody can afford to lose light-heartedly. The 2 Bismarck and the Littorio played a big role strategy wise locking in place huge assets of the enemy to counter them, which was worth as it was difficult to get rid of them, but the day a single plane showed it could take out a 6 milion Lire worth ship with a single bomb, the battleship as a concept died. It was not the plane, it was the reliability of the hit and the impossibility to up armour the ship any further against the menace.
Hard disagree that carriers are as vulnerable to aircraft as battleships and can’t do shore bombardment. A battleship’s defence against aircraft is limited to the range of it’s anti-aircraft guns (or SAM systems, on any modern-day equivalent to a BB) whereas a carrier’s defence extends to the protection granted it by it’s air wing and their combat air patrol. And with modern day AEW&C aircraft and long range air to air missiles this umbrella is very wide indeed.
As for shore bombardment, for a carrier that is just ground attack and close air support by another name. And in the modern day a carrier can strike at a greater range and with more precision than a battleship’s guns can. Perhaps the only aspect still in favour of it’s use in shore bombardment is the psychological effect it can have on enemy forces.
@@Warspite1 Except no. Battleship - especially with air & asw umbrella - can be just parked along shore and respond more quickly than aviation could. And continue siting there long after aircraft have to return....
Good video, but the Battle of the Denmark sea where Bismarck sunk Hood was 1941, not 1942 at 16:45
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I have read "red storm rising ". For the first time around 1990.
I have never understood the complexity of the dance of the Vampires chapter.
Until now.
Thanks for the great explanation!
As a Swede I'm sadden that the RBS15 was forgotten. Easily up there with the other western offerings.
Even the old ones could "swarm" the target like the JSM for example.
It's actually a little faster than the other western missiles if I'm not wrong
@@bramha9680 Yeah, it's still subsonic, but for example 27% faster than a Harpoon.
And we Swedes usually give a lower number than reality, compared to the Russians or Chinese for example who over promise on everything.
He's Australian, so he's in love with American stuff.
File this video under things I didn't know I wanted but glad I found.
Bravo sir. Amazing video. As always
wow that was long still I watched it all
it was great, fascinating
thank you for making it
some being very relevant.
small correction, in actuality the warhead of the KSR did not form an EFP, it simply was arranged to increase explosive effect via shaped charge without an EFP-forming liner. I could be wrong on this but shaped charges of this type were to my knowledge the default choice for soviet ASCMs
another awesome brief.
May i suggest a briefing on Naval mine (including air deployed ones like the quickstirke) and also air launched standoff weapons.