Kelanis
09-05-2004, 17:48
Looking for a new addition to your homeland defense or mobile missile forces?
Look no further! I give to you the brand new SS-142 Marauder hypersonic interdiction missile.
What sets the SS-142 apart from other land/air/sea launched hypersonic missiles?
The SS-142 has a combination of blistering speed, advanced countermeasures, intercontinental range, stealth characteristics, and massive payload capacity. The result?
Very few other missiles can even come close to the SS-142's lethality.
Without further adieu,
The SS-142 Marauder
http://www.onr.navy.mil/media/images/gallery/thumbs/scramjet/freejet_top.jpg
(This model is unpainted; all military-use models are shipped with a black, glossy, obsidian-like paintcoat.)
While the SS-142 is too large for all but the biggest VLS-capable ships, it is easily transported and launched from most mobile ICBM units and can be vertically or horizontally launched from fixed land-based installations.
The Marauder has a variety of uses, including anti-ship strikes, surface-to-surface attacks, and nuclear/EMP delivery.
The SS-142 has a maximum level flight speed of Mach 7.3, with a maximum withstandable speed of Mach 9.9 in a dive, and uses a unique two-stage propulsion system to achieve its mission.
The initial stage consists of a relatively basic hypergolic ignition rocket, fueled by dinitrogen tetroxide and oxidized by unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine. This stage's primary responsibility is to bring the missile to its programmed cruise altitude and to achieve a speed of at least Mach 2 so the supersonic ramjet system can be engaged.
Explosive bolts are used to jettison the aft rocket engine. The missile's onboard computer opens the oxygen ramscoops around the forward cone of the missile, and commences the liquid hydrocarbon ignition.
Inside the air intake shaft, powerful impellers force some of the oxygen into supercooled gaseous hydrogen containers to create water. This water is then used to ignite a pair of extremely powerful potassium/magnesium vectored thrust engines, which are used to accelerate the missile through Mach 10 in its terminal run against the target.
A vectored-thrust flex joint at the center of the missile's main body gives it excellent maneuverability, although the missile's onboard computer must limit maneuvering to preserve fuel on long runs and also keep the missile within its maximum g-limit.
An onboard Electronic Countermeasures Suite provides three chaff cartridges and 3 flare pods, as well as powerful CDJ-01 'Backscatter' active strobe jammers.
An Adaptive Flight System (AFS) is integrated into the missile's onboard computer and can be used to fully customize the flight plan of the missile. The system interface is easy to access and use, hidden behind a small panel on the underside of the rear of the missile. The missile is usually programmed from inside the launch vehicle or station, which is connected to the missile via cables. These cables are removed prior to launch.
The missile can execute high-flying, high-speed dashes with enormous Mach 10+ terminal dives, low-altitude sea-skimming with pop-up terminal, or even terrain following fuel-conservation mode, with only half of the 6 air scoops open.
The Marauder's onboard electronics are equipped with moderate EMP shielding to protect it from increasingly hostile electronic battlefields.
Statistics
Primary Function: Hypersonic long-range interdiction missile
Weight: 4320 kg (approx. 9600 lbs)
Speed: Mach 7.3 in level flight; Mach 9.9 unboosted dive; Mach 10+ boosted dive
Guidance: Inertial w/course correction; encrypted short-range mid-flight adjustment; anti-radar; active infrared; micrometer-band ground radar; onboard active radar.
Payload: Varies; up to 2,500 lbs high explosive, or submunitions, or 50 kT thermonuclear warhead, or med-yield EMP, or 1 kT plasma warhead.
Engines: One Imperius Type 052 liquid hydrocarbon forced-intake supersonic ramjet; one hypergolic rocket booster; two water/potassium/magnesium terminal boost units
ECM: One Botres Industries Integrated Countermeasures System (3 flares, 3 chaff cartridges, strobe jammer)
Range: Land attack, hi-hi-hi w/terminal dive, conventional: About 5,000 km
Diameter: 40.8 inches (103.62 cm)
Length: 657 inches (16.68 meters) with booster; 620 inches without
Cost: 9.1 million dollars/missile
Due to the size and power of these weapons, only countries shown to have stable, responsible regimes and the economy needed to purchase these weapons without causing deficit will be allowed to submit orders. The buyer takes the responsibility of providing transport and guard for the weapons.
Look no further! I give to you the brand new SS-142 Marauder hypersonic interdiction missile.
What sets the SS-142 apart from other land/air/sea launched hypersonic missiles?
The SS-142 has a combination of blistering speed, advanced countermeasures, intercontinental range, stealth characteristics, and massive payload capacity. The result?
Very few other missiles can even come close to the SS-142's lethality.
Without further adieu,
The SS-142 Marauder
http://www.onr.navy.mil/media/images/gallery/thumbs/scramjet/freejet_top.jpg
(This model is unpainted; all military-use models are shipped with a black, glossy, obsidian-like paintcoat.)
While the SS-142 is too large for all but the biggest VLS-capable ships, it is easily transported and launched from most mobile ICBM units and can be vertically or horizontally launched from fixed land-based installations.
The Marauder has a variety of uses, including anti-ship strikes, surface-to-surface attacks, and nuclear/EMP delivery.
The SS-142 has a maximum level flight speed of Mach 7.3, with a maximum withstandable speed of Mach 9.9 in a dive, and uses a unique two-stage propulsion system to achieve its mission.
The initial stage consists of a relatively basic hypergolic ignition rocket, fueled by dinitrogen tetroxide and oxidized by unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine. This stage's primary responsibility is to bring the missile to its programmed cruise altitude and to achieve a speed of at least Mach 2 so the supersonic ramjet system can be engaged.
Explosive bolts are used to jettison the aft rocket engine. The missile's onboard computer opens the oxygen ramscoops around the forward cone of the missile, and commences the liquid hydrocarbon ignition.
Inside the air intake shaft, powerful impellers force some of the oxygen into supercooled gaseous hydrogen containers to create water. This water is then used to ignite a pair of extremely powerful potassium/magnesium vectored thrust engines, which are used to accelerate the missile through Mach 10 in its terminal run against the target.
A vectored-thrust flex joint at the center of the missile's main body gives it excellent maneuverability, although the missile's onboard computer must limit maneuvering to preserve fuel on long runs and also keep the missile within its maximum g-limit.
An onboard Electronic Countermeasures Suite provides three chaff cartridges and 3 flare pods, as well as powerful CDJ-01 'Backscatter' active strobe jammers.
An Adaptive Flight System (AFS) is integrated into the missile's onboard computer and can be used to fully customize the flight plan of the missile. The system interface is easy to access and use, hidden behind a small panel on the underside of the rear of the missile. The missile is usually programmed from inside the launch vehicle or station, which is connected to the missile via cables. These cables are removed prior to launch.
The missile can execute high-flying, high-speed dashes with enormous Mach 10+ terminal dives, low-altitude sea-skimming with pop-up terminal, or even terrain following fuel-conservation mode, with only half of the 6 air scoops open.
The Marauder's onboard electronics are equipped with moderate EMP shielding to protect it from increasingly hostile electronic battlefields.
Statistics
Primary Function: Hypersonic long-range interdiction missile
Weight: 4320 kg (approx. 9600 lbs)
Speed: Mach 7.3 in level flight; Mach 9.9 unboosted dive; Mach 10+ boosted dive
Guidance: Inertial w/course correction; encrypted short-range mid-flight adjustment; anti-radar; active infrared; micrometer-band ground radar; onboard active radar.
Payload: Varies; up to 2,500 lbs high explosive, or submunitions, or 50 kT thermonuclear warhead, or med-yield EMP, or 1 kT plasma warhead.
Engines: One Imperius Type 052 liquid hydrocarbon forced-intake supersonic ramjet; one hypergolic rocket booster; two water/potassium/magnesium terminal boost units
ECM: One Botres Industries Integrated Countermeasures System (3 flares, 3 chaff cartridges, strobe jammer)
Range: Land attack, hi-hi-hi w/terminal dive, conventional: About 5,000 km
Diameter: 40.8 inches (103.62 cm)
Length: 657 inches (16.68 meters) with booster; 620 inches without
Cost: 9.1 million dollars/missile
Due to the size and power of these weapons, only countries shown to have stable, responsible regimes and the economy needed to purchase these weapons without causing deficit will be allowed to submit orders. The buyer takes the responsibility of providing transport and guard for the weapons.