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Oops,sorry that should be less than 500kg!!!!

Anyway, a weapon like the Harpoon (or its derivative,the SLAM-ER) would satisfy most nations which don’t have the requirements of the US military ie, long-range, multiple guidance modes for pin-point accuracy etc.

About the Brahmos, sure a Phalanx or a RAM may get it-but the question is whether it will be shot down far enough to avoid warhead debris hitting the ship.

A round only needs to get a piece of that missile. With air-to-air missiles such as AMRAAM and the Phoenix there is a part of the missile called TDD (Target Detection Device) witch is a proximity fuse. The Anti-missile only needs to be close. It then blows up. On rare occasions, if you get lucky you may hit the object directly. But that is rare.

Motorola for a time manufactured small proximity fuses for small arms. About the size of what the Phalanx shoots. So these rounds would blow up if it detected a near by object. A supersonic object if it gets any perturbation on the surface the skin it will peal the skin off in a very dramatic fashion.

At the same time we are developing laser weapons that can take out mortar rounds. I think they might be using them in Israel now. In four years when this thing is in inventory it will probably be obsolete.

Oh yeah, the profile of this thing has got big radar signature all over it. From the air intake and speed. So they might get one off but the ship that it came from will be gone in short order. The effective area around one aircraft carrier is probably on the order of 1500 miles.

Of course my supposition is that we will still be funding R&D and have a military. If the Obama gets in all bets are off.

I kind of get from you this is some great Doomsday weapon. I just don't see it as that big of a threat. If they had true (greater than Mach 7) scram-jet technology. I think I would be concerned.

This is slightly faster than an AMRAAM and I think an AMRAAM could be upgraded for this thing.