Raytheon Phalanx - Russian ASM attacking vessel

malloch

New Member
Check these stills from a recent 3D animation for defenceimaging.

There are shots showing the Russian Yakhont missile closing on ship - finally being destroyed by the onboard CIWS Phalanx system.

Check out the full animation at:
http://www.defenceimaging.com
 

turin

New Member
Nice, but as far as I can say, not that realistic. What the animation lacked, were the nasty multiple hits on the ship by debris from the missile.
The advent of heavy and supersonic anti-ship-missiles was the very reason why short range missile defense switched from gun-based systems to missile-based ones such as RAM. With the latter you got a much higher effective range, therefore eleminating the weakness of the traditional CIWS, which, even if they could intercept the missile (which is quite a thing to achieve in itself) could do that only in such a close range, that the high probability of debris from such a huge and fast missile would still mean inflicting serious damage to the ship being attacked.
 
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