United Elias
27-07-2003, 10:01
The EAW-12 'Black Shaheen Air Launched cruise missile was originally designed to replace AS-15 and EAW-10 ALCMs in service with the Dictatorship of Elias Air Force (DEAF). It is a highly sophisticated design that incorporates the latest technology available, and can be fired from a wide range of aircraft.
The EAW-12 is a stealth cruise missile of around 1,300 kg carrying a powerful conventional warhead. It is is an air-launched, conventionally-armed, long-range, stand-off, precision weapon, which is deployable at night or day, in nearly all weather and operational conditions. It is able to destroy sensitive and highly protected targets (command bunkers, communications centers, etc.) with very great accuracy, with a range of over 350 nautical miles after an entirely autonomous terrain-following flight at very low altitude. It was developed to attack and destroy a wide spectrum of static, high value, heavily defended targets and the warhead is optimised for use against hardened targets.
Flight Profile
The first phase of the mission planning regime ensures that the missile navigates to the target with maximum survivability and then enters a robust target acquisition and terminal guidance phase. For complex and pre-determined missions, much of this data would have been pre-prepared earlier at the Command Headquarters. Following an Air Tasking Order, the Squadron would prepare the mission data file with the pre-planned data, together with the latest operational intelligence.
After launch, the missile changes from its firing altitude to very low cruising altitude. Its inertial navigation is continuously updated through information supplied by its navigation system following the ground by digital terrain profile matching and by GPS (Global Positioning System). This redundancy provides it with excellent navigational precision and resistance to countermeasures.
On approaching the terminal phase, the missile will initiate a bunt maneuver, pre-selected during mission planning, to obtain the best combination of acquisition probability and lethality against the target. As the missile climbs, it will jettison its nose cover, thereby enabling the missile high resolution imaging infra-red sensor to view the target area ahead.
The missile’s image processor will compare the actual image features with a reference set of features, determined during mission planning. When a feature match is achieved the target will be acquired and the required aim point selection tracked and used as the reference for the missile terminal guidance. As the missile closes in on the target the acquisition process will be repeated with a higher resolution data set to refine the aim point. Tracking will continue against this refined aim point until the precise target location is identified.
When engaging hard targets, such as Hardened Aircraft Shelters or bunkers, the missile will strike the target at the estimated optimum dive angle, selected during mission planning. On impact the detonation sequence commences. The precursor charge will perforate the target structure, and any soil covering, and the follow through penetrator warhead will continue to penetrate inside the target to be detonated after a pre-selectable fuse delay.
Should the mission be against a target with potential high collateral damage, the mission will be aborted if the target identification and acquisition process is unsuccessful. In this case the missile will fly to a predetermined crash site.
Warhead
The BROACH multi-warhead system, achieves its results by combining an initial penetrator warhead with a secondary follow-through bomb, supported by multi-event hard target fuzing. The outcome is a warhead and fuze combination that provides for the defeat of hardened targets more than twice that achievable for equivalent single penetrating warhead types, at an equivalent weight and velocity. The warhead technology can be scaled and configured for a variety of weapon payload and targets requirements.
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EAW-12 ALCM
Each EAW-12 Black Shaheen ALCM costs: $800,000
Extended Range Version
The Elias Aerospace Corporation is proud to offer the extended range EAW-12ER. The Missile differs from the original in that it has a range of 800nm as oposed to 450nm. Other differences inlcude a longer airframe to house more fuel, increased weight, a slightly modified flight control system and a modified guidance computer to cope with the extra range. It also features a lower radar cross sectio and slightly higher level of accuracy.
http://www.missilesandfirecontrol.com/our_products/strikeweapons/JASSM/images/pic-product-jassm.jpg
EAW-12ER ALCM
http://www.technodynamic.com/todd/xjassm.jpg
EAW-12ER ALCM
Each EAW-12ER ALCM costs: 1,800,000
The EAW-12 is a stealth cruise missile of around 1,300 kg carrying a powerful conventional warhead. It is is an air-launched, conventionally-armed, long-range, stand-off, precision weapon, which is deployable at night or day, in nearly all weather and operational conditions. It is able to destroy sensitive and highly protected targets (command bunkers, communications centers, etc.) with very great accuracy, with a range of over 350 nautical miles after an entirely autonomous terrain-following flight at very low altitude. It was developed to attack and destroy a wide spectrum of static, high value, heavily defended targets and the warhead is optimised for use against hardened targets.
Flight Profile
The first phase of the mission planning regime ensures that the missile navigates to the target with maximum survivability and then enters a robust target acquisition and terminal guidance phase. For complex and pre-determined missions, much of this data would have been pre-prepared earlier at the Command Headquarters. Following an Air Tasking Order, the Squadron would prepare the mission data file with the pre-planned data, together with the latest operational intelligence.
After launch, the missile changes from its firing altitude to very low cruising altitude. Its inertial navigation is continuously updated through information supplied by its navigation system following the ground by digital terrain profile matching and by GPS (Global Positioning System). This redundancy provides it with excellent navigational precision and resistance to countermeasures.
On approaching the terminal phase, the missile will initiate a bunt maneuver, pre-selected during mission planning, to obtain the best combination of acquisition probability and lethality against the target. As the missile climbs, it will jettison its nose cover, thereby enabling the missile high resolution imaging infra-red sensor to view the target area ahead.
The missile’s image processor will compare the actual image features with a reference set of features, determined during mission planning. When a feature match is achieved the target will be acquired and the required aim point selection tracked and used as the reference for the missile terminal guidance. As the missile closes in on the target the acquisition process will be repeated with a higher resolution data set to refine the aim point. Tracking will continue against this refined aim point until the precise target location is identified.
When engaging hard targets, such as Hardened Aircraft Shelters or bunkers, the missile will strike the target at the estimated optimum dive angle, selected during mission planning. On impact the detonation sequence commences. The precursor charge will perforate the target structure, and any soil covering, and the follow through penetrator warhead will continue to penetrate inside the target to be detonated after a pre-selectable fuse delay.
Should the mission be against a target with potential high collateral damage, the mission will be aborted if the target identification and acquisition process is unsuccessful. In this case the missile will fly to a predetermined crash site.
Warhead
The BROACH multi-warhead system, achieves its results by combining an initial penetrator warhead with a secondary follow-through bomb, supported by multi-event hard target fuzing. The outcome is a warhead and fuze combination that provides for the defeat of hardened targets more than twice that achievable for equivalent single penetrating warhead types, at an equivalent weight and velocity. The warhead technology can be scaled and configured for a variety of weapon payload and targets requirements.
http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/bcmt/images/images_lg/black_shaheen.jpg
http://www.armedforces.co.uk/raf/listings/stormb.jpg
EAW-12 ALCM
Each EAW-12 Black Shaheen ALCM costs: $800,000
Extended Range Version
The Elias Aerospace Corporation is proud to offer the extended range EAW-12ER. The Missile differs from the original in that it has a range of 800nm as oposed to 450nm. Other differences inlcude a longer airframe to house more fuel, increased weight, a slightly modified flight control system and a modified guidance computer to cope with the extra range. It also features a lower radar cross sectio and slightly higher level of accuracy.
http://www.missilesandfirecontrol.com/our_products/strikeweapons/JASSM/images/pic-product-jassm.jpg
EAW-12ER ALCM
http://www.technodynamic.com/todd/xjassm.jpg
EAW-12ER ALCM
Each EAW-12ER ALCM costs: 1,800,000