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Subject: Silkworm Goes Long
SYSOP    4/23/2014 5:25:43 AM
 
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trenchsol       4/24/2014 5:12:27 AM
Was it inertial guidance + onboard radar that sunk Egyptian merchant ship in 2006 ? The missile was fired from Lebanese territory by Hezbollah, or by Iranian operator hosted by Hezbollah. Is it possible that radar picked the wrong target ?
 
 
 
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keffler25       4/25/2014 10:42:40 AM
The missile missed the Hanit and flew right by it. No-one knows if the Hezbollah launch crew failed to actuate radar homing in time (missile capture in flight), or if the missile just looked and did not see and flew past  Whatever the explanation, the missile did turn on its radar at some point and looked for the first thing it saw after it missed the Hanit. BOOM.
 
Without the current C-602 in hand, there is no way to know how to spoof the missile. Export versions will not have either a Russian or Chinese designed discriminator. But export versions would give a clue as to how a discriminator might be designed and spoofed. There are only a finite number of ways to design an active terminal guidance radar with discriminator for that kind of missile.
 
And the Chinese engineers are historically known to be individually brilliant but collectively incompetent when it comes to radar.. Not like Russians at all, where the opposite is the historical trend  (for the communist ones.).     
 

Was it inertial guidance + onboard radar that sunk Egyptian merchant ship in 2006 ? The missile was fired from Lebanese territory by Hezbollah, or by Iranian operator hosted by Hezbollah. Is it possible that radar picked the wrong target ?

 

 

 
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