To the best of my knowledge in combat against ashms the PHALANX CIWS has yet to shoot down an ashm successfully . Having said that in its land based form called C-R.A.M. against mortars it has been hugely successful.
Depends on the speed of thr incoming threats, and the amount of them coming in (limited ammo). They seem to be replacing them with a system that uses small missiles in place of the gun.
Bottom line; It's part of a layered defense system and wouldn't have been a staple of navies around the world for the last 50 years if it wasn't effective.
it more successful to advance software. it like 70 percent successful. it just range is short. if had big caliber bullets and more range it can be more successful.
The Russian system is the Onyx and the Indian Brahmos is a varient of the Onyx. Is there is a reason why you are representing the Brahmos? Do you consider India and the US as adversaries?
Instead of chasing ghosts in random military RU-vid videos, you Indians should be more concerned about China and Pakistan. The US is literally the last country India should be suspicious about.
Well because Onyx is still under production and BrahMos is being manufactured from 2015s....... He needed some image of that missile, that's why he used it because Onyx is complete fully Russian Version of BrahMos not the other way around........
So the implication that Onyx is a derivative of Brahmos is wrong. The Brahmos is a majority Indian owned system also marketed by India with most subsystems being indigenous. Atleast 70% which allows for Integration with western systems because electronics is completely Indian.
Hypersonic missiles wont be used against ships since they can't maneuver and are only good for first strikes/strikes on stationary targets. Russia patent below stating they can't maneuver, need to shut it's engine off, can lose stability and even self destruct coming back down to it's target. But first lets do some math. Using the Zircon its top speed is mach 9 right? Converting to KM/S that is about 3km/s. Say you wanted to maneuver a single degree at 3km/s for 5 seconds you are off course 15km almost as much as the Chinese test missed by. Say I was wrong though about maneuvering, ill devils advocate, using the Zircon again say your target was 600km away, at 3km/s it would take 3:33 at max speed without taking into account the time it takes to reach top speed, so over 5 minutes you have to track and down it. Which is more then enough time for any crew. "Russian patent number 2579409 relates to the field of rocket technology, and more specifically to hypersonic cruise missiles equipped with a hypersonic ramjet engine. The invention describes a method of application and device hypersonic cruise missile, allowing to solve the problem of performing a combat mission to destroy ground and surface targets of such a missile. The described invention is designed to maximize the combat potential of the combat module with the scramjet. The design mode for the scramjet are high-altitude cruise conditions while maintaining the estimated cruise speed, and the need to reduce the altitude and flight speed creates difficult technical problems due to the fact that: an engine designed to perform a hypersonic mid-flight at high altitude is not able to continue to work at low-altitude trajectory sections associated with a decrease in the flight number M, hence, the rocket must approach the ground or surface target with an inactive engine; characteristics of sustainability and controllability of the combat module with inactive scramjet significantly deteriorate, loss of stability becomes possible; there is also a danger of destruction of the scramjet design due to the increase in pressure in the flow part of the engine while reducing the Combat module from the march height before hitting the target."
If the CIWS does this automatically, how does it not shoot down a friendly airplane approaching for example? Or is that not traveling at the speed of a missile and therefore not seen as a threat?
i disagree, one the real question is not if it can intersept, but how fast it can detect a threat and act on it, if it can detect a threat on time it can act on it, another is the ship can if detect on time increase the distance and change course, but the main issue is how much modern navies rely on missiles and not guns, a missile is slow and can be fooled to it something else be it by decoy's counter measures flares shafs etc. most ships have only one CIWIS system some have two, this is rare, but if they had four our more systems the threats not just could be detected sooner, but morte guns fiering at it reduces the possibility of any missiles damaging the ship.
Short answer - not very effective. Practically useless against hypersonic missiles - max effective range is 1.5km, Hypersonic missiles travel at 2km/s! No chance of effective interception. Even against subsonic missiles, fragments of the damaged missile can still hit the warship causing severe damage. This happened in trials with USS Antrim - CWIS broke up a drone but the pieces bounced off the ocean and struck the ship causing significant damage, fires and one death!
While you are correct these wont be rather useful against hypersonic missiles, but nor will hypersonic missiles be since they can't maneuver and wont be used on ships as they are only good for first strikes/strikes on stationary targets. Russia patent below stating they can't maneuver, need to shut it's engine off, can lose stability and even self destruct coming back down to it's target. But first lets do some math. Using the Zircon its top speed is mach 9 right? Converting to KM/S that is about 3km/s. Say you wanted to maneuver a single degree at 3km/s for 5 seconds you are off course 15km almost as much as the Chinese test missed by. Say I was wrong though about maneuvering, ill devils advocate, using the Zircon again say your target was 600km away, at 3km/s it would take 3:33 at max speed without taking into account the time it takes to reach top speed, so over 5 minutes you have to track and down it. Which is more then enough time for any crew. "Russian patent number 2579409 relates to the field of rocket technology, and more specifically to hypersonic cruise missiles equipped with a hypersonic ramjet engine. The invention describes a method of application and device hypersonic cruise missile, allowing to solve the problem of performing a combat mission to destroy ground and surface targets of such a missile. The described invention is designed to maximize the combat potential of the combat module with the scramjet. The design mode for the scramjet are high-altitude cruise conditions while maintaining the estimated cruise speed, and the need to reduce the altitude and flight speed creates difficult technical problems due to the fact that: an engine designed to perform a hypersonic mid-flight at high altitude is not able to continue to work at low-altitude trajectory sections associated with a decrease in the flight number M, hence, the rocket must approach the ground or surface target with an inactive engine; characteristics of sustainability and controllability of the combat module with inactive scramjet significantly deteriorate, loss of stability becomes possible; there is also a danger of destruction of the scramjet design due to the increase in pressure in the flow part of the engine while reducing the Combat module from the march height before hitting the target."
I doubt there's any good reason to replace the 20mm cannon with a .50 cal--and a .30 cal seems way too small. The only advantage machine guns had in WWII was rate of fire, and that's not an issue anymore.
Hypersonic missiles wont be used against ships since they can't maneuver and wont be used on ships as they are only good for first strikes/strikes on stationary targets. Russia patent below stating they can't maneuver, need to shut it's engine off, can lose stability and even self destruct coming back down to it's target. But first lets do some math. Using the Zircon its top speed is mach 9 right? Converting to KM/S that is about 3km/s. Say you wanted to maneuver a single degree at 3km/s for 5 seconds you are off course 15km almost as much as the Chinese test missed by. Say I was wrong though about maneuvering, ill devils advocate, using the Zircon again say your target was 600km away, at 3km/s it would take 3:33 at max speed without taking into account the time it takes to reach top speed, so over 5 minutes you have to track and down it. Which is more then enough time for any crew. "Russian patent number 2579409 relates to the field of rocket technology, and more specifically to hypersonic cruise missiles equipped with a hypersonic ramjet engine. The invention describes a method of application and device hypersonic cruise missile, allowing to solve the problem of performing a combat mission to destroy ground and surface targets of such a missile. The described invention is designed to maximize the combat potential of the combat module with the scramjet. The design mode for the scramjet are high-altitude cruise conditions while maintaining the estimated cruise speed, and the need to reduce the altitude and flight speed creates difficult technical problems due to the fact that: an engine designed to perform a hypersonic mid-flight at high altitude is not able to continue to work at low-altitude trajectory sections associated with a decrease in the flight number M, hence, the rocket must approach the ground or surface target with an inactive engine; characteristics of sustainability and controllability of the combat module with inactive scramjet significantly deteriorate, loss of stability becomes possible; there is also a danger of destruction of the scramjet design due to the increase in pressure in the flow part of the engine while reducing the Combat module from the march height before hitting the target."
