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To: Bidimus1
Yabbut, have not had access to Russian capability stuff for over a decade, but would be shocked if they did not have an equivalent to our E-2C to give the fleet anti-missile shooters data on what was coming.

That is the problem with subsonic stuff, lots of time to shoot it down once detected, regardless of which ship is being targeted.

Our navy sure as heck practices shooting at "crossing" targets, IOW stuff aimed at another ship, like an oiler or whatever.

I dunno, without a supersonic dash, I wonder about the ability for any of these to score a hit against modern ship defense stuff. The "CIWS uber alles" crew here on FR seems to think it can deal with Mach-3 incoming with no damage to the ship, so Mach .8 should be trivial.

9 posted on 02/18/2016 10:25:32 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69
They don't have a dedicated E-2 type of system. They have AWACS and variants of the IL-38 equipped with the Sea Dragon radar system, that can be used for targeting. Not sure if it matches up to an E-2.
10 posted on 02/18/2016 10:46:37 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: doorgunner69

The best the Soviets had aboard ship was the Ka-27 “Helix” and later Ka-31 “Hormone” rotary wing AEW which was at best fair to good but as was soviet practice solid designs.

The Hormone can detect Air Craft at about 150km not bad, but sea skimmers are a lot less easy to spot.

I would think that the new production TASM will have some RAM (Radar Absorbing Material) to make it even less easy to spot.

TASM (old version) could also do way point guidance so as to come from an unexpected direction or use coastal features for radar cover

To those that say sub-sonic sea skimmers are not the perfect solution are correct.

A time on target strike with the new Standard-6 (SM6) Missile and TASM will make for a nasty thing to deal with.

Add in a few Air Assets like Super Hornet with Harm missiles and Harpoons makes for a very complex defense situation for the enemy.

Pick up a copy of Harpoon by Lary Bond and give it a try the US Navy as used it as an intro to sea command.


11 posted on 02/18/2016 10:51:04 PM PST by Bidimus1
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To: doorgunner69

an equivalent to our E-2C is the Tu-214R


23 posted on 02/19/2016 5:59:36 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: doorgunner69

Humm wrong number scheme/role the Tu-214R is U.S. E-4B equiv.

Sorry


24 posted on 02/19/2016 6:04:03 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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