Weapon Types

[Zachstar]

It is a combat sim... It is going to have weapons... This is a topic to discuss some of the various types of weapons that will obviously be implemented for use by players or AI.

[Zachstar]

Mark 48 torpedo

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Mark 48 torpedo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_48_torpedo)


The Mark 48 and its improved ADCAP (Advanced Capability) variant are heavyweight submarine launched torpedoes. They were designed to sink fast, deep-diving nuclear-powered submarines and high-performance surface ships.


General characteristics (Mk-48 and Mk-48 ADCAP)

* Primary Function: Heavyweight torpedo for submarines
* Contractor:
o Original Mk-48: Gould
o Mk-48 ADCAP: Hughes Aircraft, now Raytheon
* Power Plant: Swash-plate piston engine; pump jet
* Length: 19 ft (5.79 m)
* Weight: 3,434 lb (1,558 kg) (Mk-48); 3,695 lb (1,676 kg) (Mk-48 ADCAP)
* Diameter: 21 in (533 mm)
* Range: 38 km at 55 kt, 50 km at 40 kt (estimated [2])
* Depth: 800 m (estimated [2])
* Speed: 55 kt (estimated [2])
* Guidance System: Wire guided and passive/active acoustic homing
* Warhead: 650 lb (295 kg) high explosive (at short range, the torpedo's unused fuel adds to the destructive power of the warhead)
* Date Deployed: 1972 (Mk-48), 1988 (Mk-48 ADCAP)

The accurate performance data are classified. The United States Navy only states that the torpedo diving depth is "greater than 800 ft", the speed "greater than 28 kt" and the range "greater than 5 miles"

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Big, Long Range, And kicks serious ass... What more can you want?

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[Zachstar]

AGM-65 Maverick

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_missile


The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground tactical missile (AGM) designed for close air support. It is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation, and fuel storage facilities.

The AGM-65F (infrared targeting) used by the US Navy has an infrared guidance system optimized for ship tracking and a larger penetrating warhead than the shaped charge used by the US Marine Corps and the US Air Force (300 pounds (136 kg) vs 125 pounds (57 kg)). The infrared TV camera enables the pilot to lock onto targets through light fog where the conventional TV seeker's view would be just as limited as the pilot's. The AGM-65 has two types of warheads; one has a contact fuze in the nose, and the other has a heavyweight warhead with a delayed fuze, which penetrates the target with its kinetic energy before firing. The latter is most effective against large, hard targets. The propulsion system for both types is a solid-fuel rocket motor behind the warhead.

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You do NOT want to be in the Camera of this thing! It even packs a hell of a punch to ships.

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[Zachstar]

Raduga Kh-22 (AS-4 'Kitchen')

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Raduga Kh-22 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raduga_Kh-22)


The Raduga Kh-22 (NATO reporting name AS-4 'Kitchen') is a large, long-range anti-ship missile developed by the Soviet Union. It was intended for use against US Navy aircraft carriers and carrier battle groups


The Kh-22 used an Isayev liquid-fuel rocket engine, fueled with hydrazine and IRFNA (inhibited red fuming nitric acid), giving it a maximum speed of nearly Mach 2 and a range of up to 400 km (250 miles). It could be used in either high-altitude or low-altitude modes. In high-altitude mode it climbed to an altitude of 27,000 m (88,580 ft) and made a high-speed dive into the target, with a terminal speed of about Mach 4. In low-altitude mode, it climbed to 12,000 m (39,370 ft) and made a shallow dive at about Mach 1.2, making the final approach at an altitude under 500 m (1,640 ft). Guidance was by gyro-stabilized autopilot, with a radio altimeter. Two initial versions were built, the Kh-22A with a large conventional warhead and the Kh-22N, with a 350-kiloton nuclear warhead. In the mid-1960s this was supplemented by the Kh-22P, an anti-radiation missile for the destruction of radar installations. In the 1970s the Kh-22 was upgraded to Kh-22M and Kh-22MA standard, with new attack profiles, somewhat longer range, and a datalink allowing mid-course updates. Even so, it was largely obsolete, although it lingered in Soviet service for many years. It was carried by the Tu-22K, Tu-22M, and Tu-95K-22.

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If this thing is launched you better pray you can take it out quickly. It is FAST and deadly.

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[Kapitan]

SS-N-19 shipwreck (P700 Granit)


The P-700 was designed in the 1970s to replace the SS-N-7 Starbright and SS-N-9 Siren, both effective missiles but with too short a range in the face of improving weapons of US Navy carrier battle groups. The missile was partially derived from the SS-N-12 Sandbox.

Built by Chelomei/NPO Mashinostroenia, the bulging 10m missile has swept-back wings and tail, weighs around 7000 kg and can be fitted with either a 750 kg HE warhead, a FAE warhead, or a 500 kt nuclear warhead. It is launched by circular solid-fuel booster before moving into sustained flight with a turbojet KR-93 engine, the missile has a distinctive annular air intake in the nose to power the engine. Maximum speed is believed to be around Mach 2.5, experimental version fitted with a ramjet 4D 04 engine can accelerate up to a top speed of Mach 4. Range is estimated at 550 to 625 km. The guidance system is mixed-mode, with inertial, active terminal guidance with radar and also anti-radar homing. Mid-course correction is probable.

The missile, when fired in swarm (groups of 4-8) has a unique guidance mode. One of them goes up and designates targets - the others attack. The one that goes up does it in short pop-ups, so it makes it harder to intercept. It works like a network with datalink between each missile. Missiles are able to differentiate targets, detect groups and prioritize targets automatically using information gathered during flight and types of ships and battle formations pre-programmed in onboard computer, after that swarm attacks highest priority-to-lowest: after destroying first target missiles left are attacking next prioritized target.[1] [2]. See also P-500 Bazalt for more details.


[edit] Deployment

SS-N-19 launchers on the Kirov class cruiser Frunze.Initial deployment was aboard the cruiser Kirov (now the Admiral Ushakov) in 1980. It is currently in service with the Russian Northern Fleet on the Kirov-class battlecruisers Admiral Nakhimov and Pyotr Velikhy, the aviation cruiser Kuznetsov and as part of the larger guided missile submarines armoury (the Kursk carried 24 missiles). However, the size of the missile limits the platforms on which it can operate.


[edit] Specifications
Name: P-700 (SS-N-19)
Type: Long-range anti-ship cruise missile
Developed: Russia
Weight: 7000 kg
Length: 10 m
Diameter: 0.85 m
Warhead: 750 kg HE (unknown composition, probably RDX or similar) or 500 kt fission-fusion thermonuclear
Guidance: Inertial, active radar with home-on-jam, and Legenda satellite targeting system (believed to be nonfunctional after the fall of the USSR)
G limit: 16
Maximum Mach number: 2.5
Range: 600 km
Platforms: Kirov CGN, Kuznetsov CVG, Oscar SSGN

[Transients]

Ever read the books by Michael DiMercurio?

I'd love to fire a Vortex missile!

http://www.ussdevilfish.com/index01.htm

[[Subsim] SandyCaesar]

Levity aside...and resurrecting this topic, which I suspect is like raising the Kursk...

I'd like to see early-gen weapons, if that's possible. American Mk37s and Mk14s (an old-fashioned torpedo run with a nuc), and God alone (or Kapitan) knows how many different varieties of Soviet torps. SET-53s, SET-65s, TEST-71s, SAET-60s, 53-65Ks, USET-80s, and let's not get into the SSMs.

Maybe other torps for other nations? Reenact the Belgrano sinking, perhaps?

[XabbaRus]

If things work out this will be possible.