The Zoogie People
19-04-2004, 19:18
Missiles 'N Things
Zoogiedom conventional aircraft-launched munitions
Welcome to the Zoogiedom missile and munitions export center: here will be found Zoogiedom's newest lines of aircraft-launched conventional weapons.
Export rules are currently only to be sold to allies, although this is negotiable, and comments (i.e, on improving them) or suggestions (i.e, on prices) are welcome.
Aerial Intercept Missiles
Air to air missiles are perhaps the most famed and legendary of all aircraft deployed munitions. As aircraft have become easily some of the deadliest strike forces, they have also evolved to shoot down others...none of this could be accomplished as effectively as it is today without aerial intercept missiles.
Two developments are common in Zoogiedom missiles: multi-designation and VHE warheads. Our active radar missiles, like all in service today, rely on a data uplink from the parent aircraft - but only for a short period of time. It switches to guidance by a power milimeter wave radar installed in the missile, which is almost impossible to detect or befuddle via electronic countermeasures. It also guides itself through the secondary means of laser/GPS receivers and infrared tracking...our missiles are practically impossile to escape from.
Zoogiedom missiles also use very high explosive warheads, or VHE. With more effective and pure explosive materials than available in the real world today, our VHE missiles explode with an estimated 17% more power than HE-blast fragmentation missiles of the same warhead caliber.
Export is to allied or trusted nations only...inquire here. Includes trade partners or business partners.
Note* : A infrared-guided missile is in development between Zoogiedom and Soviet Bloc and Jordaxia.
AIM-124 'Ahlier'
http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/54396/aim124.jpg
The AIM-124 is the next generation of aerial intercept missile technology. Like most Zoogiedom missiles, it uses multiple guidance systems, but is primarily guided by active radar.
Travelling at speeds of well over Mach 4, the AIM-124 easily reaches its target in very short time intervals. Just seconds after being deployed (assuming a target range of less than 36 miles) the AIM-124 relies on its own active radar guidance. Its official range is somewhat over sixty miles, but its maximum effective range begins to taper off after roughly forty five miles.
The AIM-124 doesn't have many control surfaces. Instead, it relies primarily on its 3D-thrust vectoring liquid propulsion engine, capable of directing its thrust in any direction. The missile's heat and visual signature is also reduced, particularly the missile signature - if the pilot can't see it, he sure as heck can't run from it. The control surfaces and protruding fins are minimalized - if they can even be called fins. Thing, non obtrusive fins in the middle section of the missile contain hydraulic microprocessors, which expertly manipulate the control surfaces and allow unprecedented agility for a missile of its class. Rear fins fold down for internal carriage, and for speed during flight, but are able to deploy and twist around to offer even more manueverability. Upon missing the enemy aircraft, it can quickly snap back by deploying the fins for maximum air resistance, switching the engine power down and directing the thrust to drastically reduce the speed of the missile, and have another strike at the aircraft. Or, it can lock onto the nearest enemy aircraft - say, another in the squadron formation - and go after that.
The AIM-124 features incredibly tracking systems. The advanced milimeter wave radar is amazingly stealthy and has low susceptibility to electronic countermeasures. Tracking the source of ECM and able to be unaffected by distractions such as chaff, the AIM-124 is fairly inescapable. Comparing data from laser and GPS systems, the AIM-124 also has infrared guidance, giving it an added edge in going right through countermeasures.
Length: 354cm
Diameter: 16.9cm
Weight: 329lbs
Warhead: 50.2lbs
Optimal range: 12 - 35 mi
Effective Range: 8 - 43 mi
Maximum range: 61 mi
Speed: Mach 4.5+
Cost: $348,000
Shoot-to-Kill*: 1.0023:1
* - at optimal range of 28 miles
AIM-136 ACIRM
-in development jointly with Soviet Bloc
AIM-148 'Hiralen'
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/images/meteor_ef.jpg
(Hopefully an interim image)
The AIM-148 is a beyond-visual-range missile that truly presses the limits of medium ranged aerial intercept misisle technology. A fairly large missile, it is still able to be held in the internal bays of the F-22, albeit in smaller quantities - rather than 6 AIM-120s, 2 AIM-148s and 4 AIM-9Xs.
The AIM-148 is powered by 3D thrust vectoring liquid propulsion, similar to the AIM-124. It allows for high speeds of just over Mach 4 and astounding manueverability. Control surfaces are again, minimalized for low air resistance, manueverability, and internal carraige. Micro and nanotechnology systems manipulate the movement of the AIM-148, and like the AIM-124, is controlled by an optical fiber system.
The AIM-148 utilizes the incredible milimeter wave radar, and also tracks with satellite/GPS input and infrared guidance. The AIM-148's long range - made possible by an ultra-efficient engine and partly by its fuel - makes it more reliable on a data uplink in the early stages. However, fire-and-forget demands it to sever aircraft connections early on; and therefore satellite data (GPS) is received less than a minute after deployment against a target at maximum effective range.
The AIM-148 is almost impossible to shake in its terminal phase, with expertly manipulated control surfaces and its 3D-thrust vectoring engine. Its counter-countermeasures suite makes it for all intensive purposes immune to ECM, chaff, flare, and other methods of throwing off missiles. Its manueverability even at high speeds is unmatched, and its speed can change at will to outperform and outmanuever the escaping aircraft.
Length: 374 cm
Diameter: 18.14 cm
Weight: 392 lbs
Warhead: 64.8 lbs
Optimal range: 20-64 mi
Effective Range: 13 - 82 mi
Maximum range: 98 mi
Speed: Mach 4+
Cost: $356,000
Shoot to kill*: 1.004:1
* - At optimal range of roughly 52 mi
AIM-160 'Asdenof'
http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/54396/aim160.jpg
The AIM-160 is a heavier, longer ranged missile designed primarily for long range air defense - a standoff weapon to be used for air defense fighters such as the F-14 while on patrol. Significantly smaller than the Phoenix, it is nevertheless too large to be carried internally.
The AIM-160 is also powered by a 3d-thrust vectoring engine with liquid propulsion. This tremendously cpable engine reduces heat signature, directs thrust for vastly superior mobility in comparison to the AIM-54 it supplants, and propels the missile at speeds of up to Mach 4.
Control surfaces are fairly minimalized, although not to the extent of its service partners, the AIM-148 and AIM-124. The AIM-160 has a sleek design to allow it to travel with little air resistance, while maintaining easy high speed manueverability. The compromise of this is that its end game and short range manueverability is poorer than the AIM-148, and of course the AIM-124. In shorter ranges, its performance is inferior to the other two domestic air to air missiles Zoogiedom offers - but in long ranges, it cannot be beat.
Like the AIM-120, the AIM-160 initially relies on a data uplink with the aircraft it was deployed from. In minutes, however, it is able to rely on AWACs or satelite uplinks, leaving the aircraft free to forget about it. The active milimeter wave radar is nearly impossible to detect, and jamming and othermeasures have basically no effect on it. Scanning for the ECM source, and comparison of data with GPS, laser, passive radar, and infrared guidance minimalizes the distortion of its guidance and ensures great accuracy despite its very long ranges.
The optical fiber control system activates microprocessors in the control surface and controls the engine to be able to lower speeds, pick up speeds, and turn quickly to outmanuever the aircraft it targets.
Length: 388 cm
Diameter: 18.62cm
Weight: 426 lbs
Warhead: 74.2lbs
Optimal range:: 28 - 110 mi
Effective Range: 15 - 140 mi
Maximum range:162 mi
Speed: Mach 4+
Cost: $368,000
Shoot to kill*: 1.017:1
* - at optimal range of 102 mi
Ground Attack Missiles
This category compasses a myriad of different ranged munitions. General purpose ground attack missiles such as the AGM-65 are able to strike at everything from hangars to bridges to supply convoys. More specialized ground attack weapons such as the AGM-114, attack tanks, or such as the AGM-88, attack enemy air defenses. In recent years, this category was greatly broadened by developments in advanced bomb studies - suddenly, bombs became standoff weapons too. The JASSM and the JSOW are prime examples - long ranged free fall bombs, with phenomenal distances depite the 'dumb bomb' appearance.
AGM-113 'Shiva'
http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/54396/agm113.jpg
Zoogiedom and Kazakhstania have once again collaborated on a joint military project. First of all, the size and bulk of the AGM-88 was found very cumbersome, and its inability to be deployed from the internal bays from anything but MASSIVE stealth fighters was found troublesome - as was its age. With newer technology, a similar, very-high-explosive anti-radiation missile was developed, except it was phenomenally smaller in size.
The project specifications called for a small, lightweight yet deadly anti-radiation missile to be used on Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) missions. It would be able to strike at AAA, SAMs, radar installations, and basically anything that emits radar off the ground. It was designed to be compact and almost undetectable, yet still pack the punch of an ALARM and the manueverability of an AIM-120. The developmental name was 'Compact High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile,' in Zoogiedom or CHARM...although the final specifications left it at CARM, it was still referred to by pilots as Charm.
For the most part, the body is just what the specifications called for - sleek, smooth with folding tail fins, it allows for excellent manueverability and speed. Its new "Hydrogen Nitrate" and Oxygen bleed engine allows for a smaller engine with a large speed, if slightly smaller range, at 20.56 nautical miles. This is at Mach 3.9, a colossal speed nearly impossible to detect.
The seekers on the missile are high tech and very sophisticated. The small passive radar seeker is very 'quiet' and hard to detect. It has a detection range for the smallest of clamshell radars at 24nm on average. One launched, as the missile reaches 4nm to target, the radar is turned off and IR turned on, which means the missile is almost undetectable. But if the IR is jammed, the radar can still function, which is a bonus.
Using either seeker, the missile will plow into the target. If the target stops radiating, the small computer will still remember the position and guide the missile in, even if both guidance systems are jammed. It even selects which guidance system and flight path, using GPS ground maps to avoid terrain. This makes it a very, very smart missile.
It is compatible with all US, Russian, European, Kazakhstanian and Zoogietic systems. It can also be made compatible with other systems with great ease. It works well with Kazakhstanian JTIDS, too, and Zoogiedom's equivalent. It is a fantastic system, with its own mind, brain and power.
The power is in twin warheads up front. These are both an VHE warhead for target puncture, and VHE-FRAG for 20 metres round about to be blown apart. Swift, manueverable, accurate and deadly - all at a range of twenty miles.
Length: 3.12 m
Body diameter: 123 mm
Wingspan: 0.29 m
Launch weight: 125 kg
Warhead: 15 kg VHE-FRAG, 35 kg VHE
Fuse: Perimeter and Contact
Guidance: Passive Radar and IR (backup INS, w/GPS Terrain Mapping)
Propulsion: Liquid and Gas Bleed Propellant
Range: ~20 nm
Soon to arrive - VHE upgrade of the Mark 80 family, JDAM equivalent, laser guided bombs, JSOW/JASSM type munitions, small diameter bombs, insanely large guided munitions, anti-radar munitions
These items have been in IC research since RL late February, OOC research since a few weeks ago. They did not pop out of nowhere...I am still seeking to produce a better short ranged missile than I could alone (I don't know as much about them) and so have made that project joint development. These did not just pop out of nowhere.
Sold to allied or trusted nations only, OR on a per-request basis.
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/zoogiedom.jpg
Zoogiedom conventional aircraft-launched munitions
Welcome to the Zoogiedom missile and munitions export center: here will be found Zoogiedom's newest lines of aircraft-launched conventional weapons.
Export rules are currently only to be sold to allies, although this is negotiable, and comments (i.e, on improving them) or suggestions (i.e, on prices) are welcome.
Aerial Intercept Missiles
Air to air missiles are perhaps the most famed and legendary of all aircraft deployed munitions. As aircraft have become easily some of the deadliest strike forces, they have also evolved to shoot down others...none of this could be accomplished as effectively as it is today without aerial intercept missiles.
Two developments are common in Zoogiedom missiles: multi-designation and VHE warheads. Our active radar missiles, like all in service today, rely on a data uplink from the parent aircraft - but only for a short period of time. It switches to guidance by a power milimeter wave radar installed in the missile, which is almost impossible to detect or befuddle via electronic countermeasures. It also guides itself through the secondary means of laser/GPS receivers and infrared tracking...our missiles are practically impossile to escape from.
Zoogiedom missiles also use very high explosive warheads, or VHE. With more effective and pure explosive materials than available in the real world today, our VHE missiles explode with an estimated 17% more power than HE-blast fragmentation missiles of the same warhead caliber.
Export is to allied or trusted nations only...inquire here. Includes trade partners or business partners.
Note* : A infrared-guided missile is in development between Zoogiedom and Soviet Bloc and Jordaxia.
AIM-124 'Ahlier'
http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/54396/aim124.jpg
The AIM-124 is the next generation of aerial intercept missile technology. Like most Zoogiedom missiles, it uses multiple guidance systems, but is primarily guided by active radar.
Travelling at speeds of well over Mach 4, the AIM-124 easily reaches its target in very short time intervals. Just seconds after being deployed (assuming a target range of less than 36 miles) the AIM-124 relies on its own active radar guidance. Its official range is somewhat over sixty miles, but its maximum effective range begins to taper off after roughly forty five miles.
The AIM-124 doesn't have many control surfaces. Instead, it relies primarily on its 3D-thrust vectoring liquid propulsion engine, capable of directing its thrust in any direction. The missile's heat and visual signature is also reduced, particularly the missile signature - if the pilot can't see it, he sure as heck can't run from it. The control surfaces and protruding fins are minimalized - if they can even be called fins. Thing, non obtrusive fins in the middle section of the missile contain hydraulic microprocessors, which expertly manipulate the control surfaces and allow unprecedented agility for a missile of its class. Rear fins fold down for internal carriage, and for speed during flight, but are able to deploy and twist around to offer even more manueverability. Upon missing the enemy aircraft, it can quickly snap back by deploying the fins for maximum air resistance, switching the engine power down and directing the thrust to drastically reduce the speed of the missile, and have another strike at the aircraft. Or, it can lock onto the nearest enemy aircraft - say, another in the squadron formation - and go after that.
The AIM-124 features incredibly tracking systems. The advanced milimeter wave radar is amazingly stealthy and has low susceptibility to electronic countermeasures. Tracking the source of ECM and able to be unaffected by distractions such as chaff, the AIM-124 is fairly inescapable. Comparing data from laser and GPS systems, the AIM-124 also has infrared guidance, giving it an added edge in going right through countermeasures.
Length: 354cm
Diameter: 16.9cm
Weight: 329lbs
Warhead: 50.2lbs
Optimal range: 12 - 35 mi
Effective Range: 8 - 43 mi
Maximum range: 61 mi
Speed: Mach 4.5+
Cost: $348,000
Shoot-to-Kill*: 1.0023:1
* - at optimal range of 28 miles
AIM-136 ACIRM
-in development jointly with Soviet Bloc
AIM-148 'Hiralen'
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/images/meteor_ef.jpg
(Hopefully an interim image)
The AIM-148 is a beyond-visual-range missile that truly presses the limits of medium ranged aerial intercept misisle technology. A fairly large missile, it is still able to be held in the internal bays of the F-22, albeit in smaller quantities - rather than 6 AIM-120s, 2 AIM-148s and 4 AIM-9Xs.
The AIM-148 is powered by 3D thrust vectoring liquid propulsion, similar to the AIM-124. It allows for high speeds of just over Mach 4 and astounding manueverability. Control surfaces are again, minimalized for low air resistance, manueverability, and internal carraige. Micro and nanotechnology systems manipulate the movement of the AIM-148, and like the AIM-124, is controlled by an optical fiber system.
The AIM-148 utilizes the incredible milimeter wave radar, and also tracks with satellite/GPS input and infrared guidance. The AIM-148's long range - made possible by an ultra-efficient engine and partly by its fuel - makes it more reliable on a data uplink in the early stages. However, fire-and-forget demands it to sever aircraft connections early on; and therefore satellite data (GPS) is received less than a minute after deployment against a target at maximum effective range.
The AIM-148 is almost impossible to shake in its terminal phase, with expertly manipulated control surfaces and its 3D-thrust vectoring engine. Its counter-countermeasures suite makes it for all intensive purposes immune to ECM, chaff, flare, and other methods of throwing off missiles. Its manueverability even at high speeds is unmatched, and its speed can change at will to outperform and outmanuever the escaping aircraft.
Length: 374 cm
Diameter: 18.14 cm
Weight: 392 lbs
Warhead: 64.8 lbs
Optimal range: 20-64 mi
Effective Range: 13 - 82 mi
Maximum range: 98 mi
Speed: Mach 4+
Cost: $356,000
Shoot to kill*: 1.004:1
* - At optimal range of roughly 52 mi
AIM-160 'Asdenof'
http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/54396/aim160.jpg
The AIM-160 is a heavier, longer ranged missile designed primarily for long range air defense - a standoff weapon to be used for air defense fighters such as the F-14 while on patrol. Significantly smaller than the Phoenix, it is nevertheless too large to be carried internally.
The AIM-160 is also powered by a 3d-thrust vectoring engine with liquid propulsion. This tremendously cpable engine reduces heat signature, directs thrust for vastly superior mobility in comparison to the AIM-54 it supplants, and propels the missile at speeds of up to Mach 4.
Control surfaces are fairly minimalized, although not to the extent of its service partners, the AIM-148 and AIM-124. The AIM-160 has a sleek design to allow it to travel with little air resistance, while maintaining easy high speed manueverability. The compromise of this is that its end game and short range manueverability is poorer than the AIM-148, and of course the AIM-124. In shorter ranges, its performance is inferior to the other two domestic air to air missiles Zoogiedom offers - but in long ranges, it cannot be beat.
Like the AIM-120, the AIM-160 initially relies on a data uplink with the aircraft it was deployed from. In minutes, however, it is able to rely on AWACs or satelite uplinks, leaving the aircraft free to forget about it. The active milimeter wave radar is nearly impossible to detect, and jamming and othermeasures have basically no effect on it. Scanning for the ECM source, and comparison of data with GPS, laser, passive radar, and infrared guidance minimalizes the distortion of its guidance and ensures great accuracy despite its very long ranges.
The optical fiber control system activates microprocessors in the control surface and controls the engine to be able to lower speeds, pick up speeds, and turn quickly to outmanuever the aircraft it targets.
Length: 388 cm
Diameter: 18.62cm
Weight: 426 lbs
Warhead: 74.2lbs
Optimal range:: 28 - 110 mi
Effective Range: 15 - 140 mi
Maximum range:162 mi
Speed: Mach 4+
Cost: $368,000
Shoot to kill*: 1.017:1
* - at optimal range of 102 mi
Ground Attack Missiles
This category compasses a myriad of different ranged munitions. General purpose ground attack missiles such as the AGM-65 are able to strike at everything from hangars to bridges to supply convoys. More specialized ground attack weapons such as the AGM-114, attack tanks, or such as the AGM-88, attack enemy air defenses. In recent years, this category was greatly broadened by developments in advanced bomb studies - suddenly, bombs became standoff weapons too. The JASSM and the JSOW are prime examples - long ranged free fall bombs, with phenomenal distances depite the 'dumb bomb' appearance.
AGM-113 'Shiva'
http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/54396/agm113.jpg
Zoogiedom and Kazakhstania have once again collaborated on a joint military project. First of all, the size and bulk of the AGM-88 was found very cumbersome, and its inability to be deployed from the internal bays from anything but MASSIVE stealth fighters was found troublesome - as was its age. With newer technology, a similar, very-high-explosive anti-radiation missile was developed, except it was phenomenally smaller in size.
The project specifications called for a small, lightweight yet deadly anti-radiation missile to be used on Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) missions. It would be able to strike at AAA, SAMs, radar installations, and basically anything that emits radar off the ground. It was designed to be compact and almost undetectable, yet still pack the punch of an ALARM and the manueverability of an AIM-120. The developmental name was 'Compact High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile,' in Zoogiedom or CHARM...although the final specifications left it at CARM, it was still referred to by pilots as Charm.
For the most part, the body is just what the specifications called for - sleek, smooth with folding tail fins, it allows for excellent manueverability and speed. Its new "Hydrogen Nitrate" and Oxygen bleed engine allows for a smaller engine with a large speed, if slightly smaller range, at 20.56 nautical miles. This is at Mach 3.9, a colossal speed nearly impossible to detect.
The seekers on the missile are high tech and very sophisticated. The small passive radar seeker is very 'quiet' and hard to detect. It has a detection range for the smallest of clamshell radars at 24nm on average. One launched, as the missile reaches 4nm to target, the radar is turned off and IR turned on, which means the missile is almost undetectable. But if the IR is jammed, the radar can still function, which is a bonus.
Using either seeker, the missile will plow into the target. If the target stops radiating, the small computer will still remember the position and guide the missile in, even if both guidance systems are jammed. It even selects which guidance system and flight path, using GPS ground maps to avoid terrain. This makes it a very, very smart missile.
It is compatible with all US, Russian, European, Kazakhstanian and Zoogietic systems. It can also be made compatible with other systems with great ease. It works well with Kazakhstanian JTIDS, too, and Zoogiedom's equivalent. It is a fantastic system, with its own mind, brain and power.
The power is in twin warheads up front. These are both an VHE warhead for target puncture, and VHE-FRAG for 20 metres round about to be blown apart. Swift, manueverable, accurate and deadly - all at a range of twenty miles.
Length: 3.12 m
Body diameter: 123 mm
Wingspan: 0.29 m
Launch weight: 125 kg
Warhead: 15 kg VHE-FRAG, 35 kg VHE
Fuse: Perimeter and Contact
Guidance: Passive Radar and IR (backup INS, w/GPS Terrain Mapping)
Propulsion: Liquid and Gas Bleed Propellant
Range: ~20 nm
Soon to arrive - VHE upgrade of the Mark 80 family, JDAM equivalent, laser guided bombs, JSOW/JASSM type munitions, small diameter bombs, insanely large guided munitions, anti-radar munitions
These items have been in IC research since RL late February, OOC research since a few weeks ago. They did not pop out of nowhere...I am still seeking to produce a better short ranged missile than I could alone (I don't know as much about them) and so have made that project joint development. These did not just pop out of nowhere.
Sold to allied or trusted nations only, OR on a per-request basis.
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/zoogiedom.jpg