United Elias
09-10-2003, 23:24
The Elias Aerospace Corporation has been producing the Yakhont-3 anti-ship cruise missile under license from Klamath and has decided to start exporting the type. Since Klamath and Echelon his heir are no longer nations we are confident that no copyright rules are being broken. Tarasovka an existing nation and a joint venture in the original missile will be awarded 30% of all profits made on this type in recognition of their status as co-designers.
The missile is noted for:
- over-the-horizon range;
- true "fire-and-forget" performance;
- flexible flight path ("low", "high - low");
- supersonic speed at all flight phases;
- multi-platform capability permitting their use by surface ships of all major classes, submarines and ground-based launchers.
Capabilities of the standard Yakhont antiship missile
Yakhont-3 is a unique high-precision naval weapon which guarantees the destruction of highly-protected naval battle groups by a single missile salvo. A wide choice of missile flight trajectories adapted to a combat situation, an extremely low approach altitude, minimal radar signature, and a capability for maneuverable approach make this missile a highly survivable and effective AD penetration weapon.
Its target acquisition and homing system features high jamming immunity in active and passive jamming environment. The field of view of the missile homing head enables it to cover a group of targets and select an individual target in heavy jamming invirobment. The missile has a fully autonomous, fire-and-forget guidance system.
In terms of its combat efficiency and flight performance, the Yakhont missile outclasses all its foreign counterparts owing to a massive salvo capability, supersonic flight speed throughout the entire flight envelope and a powerful penetrating warhead.
The fueled missile is available in a pressurized transport/launch canister ready for loading onto a ship for combat employment. It needs no checks after loading.
All existing destroyers, frigates, corvettes, missile boats and submarines, as well as those currently being developed or built, can serve as platforms for the Yakhont-3 ASM system. The missile can be mounted on mobile coastal defense launchers and used by Naval and Air Force aircraft
In the development of the missile, the designers made use of a system approach, where different components, producing different output parameters, were integrated into a complex, well-tuned system capable of accomplishing its dedicated purpose with maximum efficiency.
Due to the Yakhont-3 short flying time (its speed is 3.5 times greater than the speed of sound) and the long effective range of its seeker head.
The ability to observe the entire target area from a high altitude, augmented by the enhanced capabilities of the antiship missile control system, make it possible to cue missiles to hostile ships in a group and discriminate false targets.
After launch, Yakhont-3 early descendt to a low altitude, combined with its supersonic speed and sea skimming flight mode in the homing phase, make it possible to avoid detection and tracking of the missile by even the target's most sophisticated air defense systems.
The missiles's compactness and maintainability on board its platform are not the least important factors determining its appearance. First of all it can be explained by the missiles's unique construction unrivaled in terms of the degree of integration of components. Basically, the entire missile - from the nose air intake to the nozzle exit section - is a propulsion plant arranged in an airframe. Except for the intake bullet, where the control system and warhead are arranged, all of the missile's internal spaces, including the ramjet motor air duct, are filled with sustainer motor propellant and accommodate the built-in solid-propellant booster stage. The missile is enclosed in a sealed launch-container. The fact that there is almost no clearance between the missile's fuselage and internal surfaces of the launch-container indicates that the degree of integration of components is very high. The missile size provides for a two- or three-fold increase in the number of the missiles carried on board a platform.
The launch-container is an integral part of the missile system. The missile is dispatched from the manufacturing plant, shipped, stored and delivered to the user in its launch-container ready for use at all times. The missile's systems check-out is made without removing the weapon from its launch-container. The launch-container, with the missile in it, is very simple to operate and maintain. It requires neither any liquid nor gas for maintenance nor specific microclimate for storage and on board its carrier. All this simplifies operation and maintenance procedures and enhances the weapon's reliability.
As the missile's basic features encompass the use of a launch-container, a wide range of launch angles and an advanced firing method which does not require flame deflectors, the missile can easily be blended into the architecture of various platforms. It should be noted here that launchers of different designs can be used: very simple rack launchers intended for installation on low-tonnage vessels of the "guided-missile boat - corvette" class or vertical-launch modular systems designed for installation on large-displacement surface ships, i.e. frigates, destroyers and cruisers.
In addition to the well-known inclined and vertical installation methods applied to submarine- and ground-based anti ship missiles, some innovative basing and launching methods have emerged for which Yakhont-3 is quite suitable.
We can say with confidence that no one anti-ship missile system currently in service elsewhere in the world possesses such an array of unique technical and operational characteristics as Yakhont-3. Taking into account current trends in the development of the navies in the world, this fact is of paramount importance.
Even light warships armed with it will be able to perform missions that before could only be handled by large combatants.
http://www.milparade.com/1998/26/0204.jpg
Flight profile
1. Preliminary targeting
2. Launch phase
3. Acceleration and ascent
4. High-altitude cruise phase
5. Diving phase
6. Seeker head activation and acquisition of target
7. Descent and low-altitude flight
8. Seeker head repeated activation
and missile homing
http://www.wonderland.org.nz/ss-n-25.jpg
cutaway view of Y-3 missile after speration with launch-container
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Images/Yakhount.jpg
http://www.deepspace4.com/pages/science/images/picsfullsize/yakhont.pg.jpg
Y-3 Shotly after launch.
http://www.milparade.com/1998/26/0203.jpg
Y-3 launch-Container
Specifications
Firing range: 800 km
Speed: Mach 3 to 3.5
Flight altitude, final phase: 5m to 15m
Weight of warhead: 554lb
Launch Type: underwater, surface ship, land
Launch angle range: 15 to 90 degrees
Weight:
Launch:3,000kg
In launch-container about: 3,900
Launch-container dimensions:
Length 8.9m
Diameter 0.7m
Price: $1.2 million per unit.
The missile is noted for:
- over-the-horizon range;
- true "fire-and-forget" performance;
- flexible flight path ("low", "high - low");
- supersonic speed at all flight phases;
- multi-platform capability permitting their use by surface ships of all major classes, submarines and ground-based launchers.
Capabilities of the standard Yakhont antiship missile
Yakhont-3 is a unique high-precision naval weapon which guarantees the destruction of highly-protected naval battle groups by a single missile salvo. A wide choice of missile flight trajectories adapted to a combat situation, an extremely low approach altitude, minimal radar signature, and a capability for maneuverable approach make this missile a highly survivable and effective AD penetration weapon.
Its target acquisition and homing system features high jamming immunity in active and passive jamming environment. The field of view of the missile homing head enables it to cover a group of targets and select an individual target in heavy jamming invirobment. The missile has a fully autonomous, fire-and-forget guidance system.
In terms of its combat efficiency and flight performance, the Yakhont missile outclasses all its foreign counterparts owing to a massive salvo capability, supersonic flight speed throughout the entire flight envelope and a powerful penetrating warhead.
The fueled missile is available in a pressurized transport/launch canister ready for loading onto a ship for combat employment. It needs no checks after loading.
All existing destroyers, frigates, corvettes, missile boats and submarines, as well as those currently being developed or built, can serve as platforms for the Yakhont-3 ASM system. The missile can be mounted on mobile coastal defense launchers and used by Naval and Air Force aircraft
In the development of the missile, the designers made use of a system approach, where different components, producing different output parameters, were integrated into a complex, well-tuned system capable of accomplishing its dedicated purpose with maximum efficiency.
Due to the Yakhont-3 short flying time (its speed is 3.5 times greater than the speed of sound) and the long effective range of its seeker head.
The ability to observe the entire target area from a high altitude, augmented by the enhanced capabilities of the antiship missile control system, make it possible to cue missiles to hostile ships in a group and discriminate false targets.
After launch, Yakhont-3 early descendt to a low altitude, combined with its supersonic speed and sea skimming flight mode in the homing phase, make it possible to avoid detection and tracking of the missile by even the target's most sophisticated air defense systems.
The missiles's compactness and maintainability on board its platform are not the least important factors determining its appearance. First of all it can be explained by the missiles's unique construction unrivaled in terms of the degree of integration of components. Basically, the entire missile - from the nose air intake to the nozzle exit section - is a propulsion plant arranged in an airframe. Except for the intake bullet, where the control system and warhead are arranged, all of the missile's internal spaces, including the ramjet motor air duct, are filled with sustainer motor propellant and accommodate the built-in solid-propellant booster stage. The missile is enclosed in a sealed launch-container. The fact that there is almost no clearance between the missile's fuselage and internal surfaces of the launch-container indicates that the degree of integration of components is very high. The missile size provides for a two- or three-fold increase in the number of the missiles carried on board a platform.
The launch-container is an integral part of the missile system. The missile is dispatched from the manufacturing plant, shipped, stored and delivered to the user in its launch-container ready for use at all times. The missile's systems check-out is made without removing the weapon from its launch-container. The launch-container, with the missile in it, is very simple to operate and maintain. It requires neither any liquid nor gas for maintenance nor specific microclimate for storage and on board its carrier. All this simplifies operation and maintenance procedures and enhances the weapon's reliability.
As the missile's basic features encompass the use of a launch-container, a wide range of launch angles and an advanced firing method which does not require flame deflectors, the missile can easily be blended into the architecture of various platforms. It should be noted here that launchers of different designs can be used: very simple rack launchers intended for installation on low-tonnage vessels of the "guided-missile boat - corvette" class or vertical-launch modular systems designed for installation on large-displacement surface ships, i.e. frigates, destroyers and cruisers.
In addition to the well-known inclined and vertical installation methods applied to submarine- and ground-based anti ship missiles, some innovative basing and launching methods have emerged for which Yakhont-3 is quite suitable.
We can say with confidence that no one anti-ship missile system currently in service elsewhere in the world possesses such an array of unique technical and operational characteristics as Yakhont-3. Taking into account current trends in the development of the navies in the world, this fact is of paramount importance.
Even light warships armed with it will be able to perform missions that before could only be handled by large combatants.
http://www.milparade.com/1998/26/0204.jpg
Flight profile
1. Preliminary targeting
2. Launch phase
3. Acceleration and ascent
4. High-altitude cruise phase
5. Diving phase
6. Seeker head activation and acquisition of target
7. Descent and low-altitude flight
8. Seeker head repeated activation
and missile homing
http://www.wonderland.org.nz/ss-n-25.jpg
cutaway view of Y-3 missile after speration with launch-container
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Images/Yakhount.jpg
http://www.deepspace4.com/pages/science/images/picsfullsize/yakhont.pg.jpg
Y-3 Shotly after launch.
http://www.milparade.com/1998/26/0203.jpg
Y-3 launch-Container
Specifications
Firing range: 800 km
Speed: Mach 3 to 3.5
Flight altitude, final phase: 5m to 15m
Weight of warhead: 554lb
Launch Type: underwater, surface ship, land
Launch angle range: 15 to 90 degrees
Weight:
Launch:3,000kg
In launch-container about: 3,900
Launch-container dimensions:
Length 8.9m
Diameter 0.7m
Price: $1.2 million per unit.