>hit to kill missile without altitude control motorSo what's the point of this?
>>65373688>altitude controlRetard.
>>65373688the extra precision added to the normal interceptors is largely unnecessary when you can just have it blow up in the proximity of the thing it's trying to intercept and kill it that way.
>>65373697It's for anti ballistic missile role nigga
>>65373697This doesn't blow up, that's what hit to kill means.
>>65373688It's not hit to kill tho, the main way they lowered cost was by replacing hit to kill with a blast fragmentation warhead, which allows dumbing down the control system.
>>65373697There is a video of a iron dome interceptor getting scythed through by a balistic missile
>>65373732>PAC-3 ACE>look inside>PAC-2 GEM++
>>65373816thanks for posting it
>>65373845PAC 2 is Ratheon, PAC 3 is Lockmart. PAC 2 got a US order for the first time in 30 years, so PAC 3 ACE as a cheaper PAC 2 competitor makes a ton of sense for Lockmart, if not necessarily the DOD (unless there is underutilized Lockmart capacity and Raytheon is booked solid).
>>65373719The PAC-3 ACE utilizes a blast fragmentation warhead for proximity kills
>>65373719PAC-3 was never purely kinetic, it always had a small "lethality enhancing" warhead on it.>inb4 nuh uhliterally in the wikipedia article for Patriot
OP is retarded, News at 11.
Just a friendly reminder that Lockheed renders of PAC-3 MSE do not depict the diverters either.>>65373732>the main way they lowered cost was by replacing hit to kill with a blast fragmentation warheadCitation needed.
>>65373949>PAC-3 was never purely kinetic, it always had a small "lethality enhancing" warhead on it.That has kill radius of about 4 feet https://patents.google.com/patent/US5691502A/en
>>65374025And how does that contradict what I said? It's not purely kinetic, it has a small warhead to improve lethality. Sure, it's a pretty small radius, but it's more wiggle room than pure hit to kill.
I'm still confused as to how this is supposed to compare to PAC-3 CRI. Sounds like it's supposed to be even cheaper but physically larger? Possibly the size of PAC-3 MSE or even PAC-2?
>>65374032nta but does it blow up in the proximity of the target? Or when it hits the target, with the explosion just there to make sure a grazing hit turns into a kill?
>>65374088I think the explosion is directed laterally in case it doesn't directly impact the target.
>>65374075It appears to be a modified MSE.
>>65373949>Dense ass conical cloud of interceptor >Big ass HE-Frag warheadBig differences, but not one that a shill from a country that forces sex change ops on homos or only defines homos as being passive bottoms would know.
>>65373688>altitude control motorcombination of words that doesn't exist in English and no native, or competent, English speaker would have ever mistakenly said
>>65373688>altitude control motor>This doesn't blow up, that's what hit to kill means.reeks of ESL retard
>>65374961So you don't want to stop missiles?
It's attitude control motor not altitude control motor
>>65374957>>65374961>Muh eslFuck you nigger. English is an outdated language that should never be someone first language.
>>65373688>altitude control motorWhat the fuck is an "altitude control motor", you mean a sustainer?
when is that bendy missile coming out?
>>65375018Probably this
>>65375003umad turd worlder
>>65373688cheapo missile to deal with non-maneuvering ballistic missile spam. Cutting the attitude control thrusters saves a good bit of cost, and modern radar and target trajectory estimation techniques have reduced the need for terminal corrections. PAC-3 was designed with higher end maneuvering targets in mind and in a time when radars were not super precise and we had little onboard processing power for fancy trajectory estimation algorithms.
Hey now, sometimes the missile has attitude and starts getting bratty, sometimes it has altitude and goes ballistic. It is what is is
>>65375661Brat missile?
>>65374025>30 year old patent>Thinks patents are used as writtenRetard alert
>>65375003>wahh wahh I hate ur langwajOk, but you're forced to speak it, and I will never need to know yours.
>>65375003>English is an outdated language that should never be someone first languageSeems to be everyone's second language though.
