Friday, April 20, 2012

Sea Dart's last hurrah.



For probably the last time in its 40-year history the Navy’s principal shield against air attack, Sea Dart missiles, have been fired by a Royal Navy warship.
HMS Edinburgh launched seven of the Mach 2 missiles at target drones off the Outer Hebrides in a last hurrah ahead of a major military exercise off western Scotland.
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  1. GrandLogisticsFriday, April 20, 2012 11:51:00 AM

    Hello Solomon,

    Sea Dart is the only missile ever to have shot down an anti-shipping missile in combat to the best of my knowledge.
    It also has a lot of combat aircraft kills to it's name,more than Aegis,I think.

    But that video shows the limitations of the system.
    Two missiles were fired within a second of each other but it appeared to take 10 seconds or more to reload.
    It would not take a lot of anti-ship missiles to swamp the system.


    GrandLogistics.

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