In 2001 VLAAS was offered to the Navy by LockMart. 3-4 stacked loitering LOCAAS drones in a modified ASROC missile. 215 knots. 17 lb warhead (EFP) 100nm range or 30 minute loiter.
Warhead sounds small but a hellfire warhead is about 20 lbs. A javelin has about a 19 lb warhead.
Will kill a tank or a small boat (like say a Chinese Type 22 missile boat). Probably mission kill a radar on a destroyer.
20 years ago. But nope. Navy wasn’t interested.
Ten or so of these on each Burke would pretty much eliminate small boat threats and give you decent stand-off against missile boat threats.
Spot them using helo, loft these at them and dead missile boat squadron.
By now we’d be block III or IV on these things and they’d be even more lethal.
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In 2001 VLAAS was offered to the Navy by LockMart. 3-4 stacked loitering LOCAAS drones in a modified ASROC missile. 215 knots. 17 lb warhead (EFP) 100nm range or 30 minute loiter.
Warhead sounds small but a hellfire warhead is about 20 lbs. A javelin has about a 19 lb warhead.
Will kill a tank or a small boat (like say a Chinese Type 22 missile boat). Probably mission kill a radar on a destroyer.
20 years ago. But nope. Navy wasn’t interested.
Ten or so of these on each Burke would pretty much eliminate small boat threats and give you decent stand-off against missile boat threats.
Spot them using helo, loft these at them and dead missile boat squadron.
By now we’d be block III or IV on these things and they’d be even more lethal.