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Helldart: General Purpose Missile Developed

Axis Nova
27-10-2005, 05:12
"Helldart" General Purpose Missile

Type: Stand-off air to air/air to ground missile
Max Speed: Mach 4.8
Range: 68 km
Warhead: Tactical nuclear device
Sensors: AtA holographic active radar, AtG GPS guidance with visual NV/IR/or Millimetric Radar Identification, laser guidance, home-on-emission
Unit Cost: $6.3 million

A lower-cost version of the Caladcholg missile, the Helldart missile is an air-to-air missile armed with a small variable-yield nuclear warhead (from 10 to 250 tons-- yes, that's TONS). It brings to the table an impressive speed, a reasonable amount of maneuverability, and a warhead capable of eliminating most targets it's used against.

The missile has been designed with it's use in multiple different situations in mind and thus is equally useful in both an ground attack and air attack role.

Due to the miniscule size of the nuclear warhead, contamination is not an issue except for equipment or troops caught within the blast radius. There are no long-term contamination issues whatsoever.
Maldaathi
27-10-2005, 05:36
$6.3 million.... ><
Axis Nova
27-10-2005, 05:44
$6.3 million.... ><

It's only about twice as expensive as some missiles the US uses, and I have a bigger budget than they. =p
Maldaathi
27-10-2005, 05:49
And that is supposed to comfort me how? :P
Axis Nova
27-10-2005, 05:50
Well, you can have a free one to cuddle with if you want comfort :D
The Macabees
27-10-2005, 05:52
As far as I've been learning in aerodynamics and consequent engineering, the missile would have a greater chance of interception with slower velocity [around Mach 2 or Mach 3].
Axis Nova
27-10-2005, 06:43
As far as I've been learning in aerodynamics and consequent engineering, the missile would have a greater chance of interception with slower velocity [around Mach 2 or Mach 3].

For purposes of this design, you may consider that the maximum velocity and not neccesarily the only one.

(shoulda marked this before, but this is a PMT missile)
The Macabees
27-10-2005, 06:47
For purposes of this design, you may consider that the maximum velocity and not neccesarily the only one.

(shoulda marked this before, but this is a PMT missile)


Understood. But just for future reference, PMT physics abide by the same laws as MT physics.