![]() ![]() Again as described deploying the, generally, smaller subsonics in volume is a simpler proposition than equivalent volumes of supersonics. Firing more missiles than the target can defeat and decoy. Seeings as modern defensive systems have evolved to cope with supersonic-profile streaming attacks engaging a prepared, contemporary, naval target is a function of simple saturation. All hit because they weren't ready to cope with the threat. Sheffield, Stark, Hanit.all warships that could and should have defeted the missiles fired at them. The most efecctive technique for getting a missile through a targets defenses is not supersonic or subsonic it is suprise!. Exposing a launch platform in this fashion can increase risk and defeat the potential for tactical suprise. This places onus on the launch platform to develop the track and hold it long enough for the launch sequence to complete. Historically, therefore, supersonics have had to be fairly tightly locked in before launch. The inherent problem with that is that it simultaneously reduces the available window of opportunity for the missiles seeker to do all the things it needs to do. 31st August 2009 at 01:55 - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00Ī supersonic attempts to defeat countermeasures by minimising its exposure window through the targets defensive-systems envelope. Subsonics also tend to be smaller, allowing more to be carried by a shooter. If the subsonic is stealthy, the time between its detection and target impact is small, limiting the ability of defensive measures. OTOH, subsonics can be programmed to follow circuitous routes to the target, making a multi-axis simultaneous saturation attack easy to accomplish. Large size also limits the number of super/hypers that can be carried by a shooter. Super/hypersonics tend to be large because of the large quantity of fuel needed to loft them. ![]() High speed also makes them stand out for doppler and severely limits maneuverability (pretty much a straight line to the target). Super/hypersonics are hot IR targets that can be detected at great distance. ![]() "Engage" involves surviving the target's defenses and final maneuvers to hit the required spot on the target. I would give the advantage to subsonics because super/hypersonics cannot carry sensors with sufficient range to assure timely terminal maneuvers or sensor mode changes to reject countermeasures. "Track" involves sensor capability and the ability to discriminate target features while rejecting countermeasures. Track-engage are missile tasks that I believe are easier for subsonics to accomplish than super/hypersonics for the following reasons: Pk requires all links in the kill chain - find, fix, target, track, engage, assess.įind-fix-target-track-assess is simpler to implement on the shooter rather than the missile, so missile speed probably isn't a big discriminator for these tasks. But it is nice knowing that I can simply take one gun and solve problems ranging in size from a itty bitty squirrel all the way up to dogs.- 31st August 2009 at 01:19 - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00īy "efficient" do you mean the highest probability of kill? Hindsight being what it is, I should have taken a 22LR gun to do a 22LR gun's job. long story short, went to clean out the chamber, and there was not a spot of lead fouling from shooting the 22LR out of a 22WMR. worked pretty good and gave me some decent accuracy. seeing what my least damaging round did to the little bugger, I pulled out some 22LR wolf match subsonics and loaded one into the chamber. also clipped his kneecap off on the way out. his little heart was still beating in the gut pile. hit em in the head, fell out of the tree, and as I picked him up, I noticed that, while it did hit him in the head, the bullet travelled down into his chest cavity, blowing an arm off in the process, and pulled nearly every one of his internal organs out through an inch wide hole in his stomach. so I aimed for his pretty little head with some CCI 40 grain TMJs and took my shot. as I was tooling around, trying to find me some chickens, I ran into a squirrel. I went out to Resurrection Pass last week to do some Spruce Grouse hunting with my go-to gun (Savage 93 in 22WMR). Here's a splendid reason for wanting to go subsonic. ![]()
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