Posted on 06/12/2023 3:26:59 AM PDT by FarCenter
Japan has unveiled plans for a new long-range anti-ship cruise missile with interchangeable warheads, the latest development in its effort to deter China’s missile threat at sea.
This month, The Warzone reported that the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MOD) awarded a US$257 million contract to Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) to develop an “island defense anti-ship missile” featuring a stealthy turbofan-powered design with a purported 2,000-kilometer range.
The report mentions that the missile will feature a “modular warhead” with land attack, electronic warfare (EW) and reconnaissance configurations.
It also says the missile will use multiple guidance systems through different stages of flight, such as global positioning system (GPS) and inertial navigating system (INS) during its cruise phase and infrared (IR) or radio frequency (RF) seekers during its terminal phase, increasing kill probability and resistance to countermeasures.
The Warzone notes that the missile will have a length of six to ten meters and fly at high subsonic Mach 0.8 speed.
Asia Times noted in January 2023 that launching multiple types of missiles in one attack can significantly improve accuracy, with a reconnaissance missile having a high-performance camera to spot the enemy’s position, followed by an EW missile to disable enemy radar and other sensors, after which a missile with a high explosive warhead delivers the lethal strike.
A lot of munitions are going to be volley fired and linked via radio links, with the entire volley interacting and sharing data, and reconfiguring and assigning targets in real time.
‘Plans’ don’t sink nothin’!
I support this.
And tell them to hurry...
Some Japanese man would probably want to marry that doll.
Go Team Green!
I, for one, am interpreting this differently than most.
The missile described would have literally 0% effect against hypersonic missiles. It’s an anti-ship missile, not an anti-missile missile.
This is clueless.
My understanding of the application is that they would be used to pre-emptively attack the Chinese warships carrying hypersonic missiles before the warships launched.
This is a proven naval strategy. See Admiral Dewey’s attack on the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
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