Moscow’s Jaw-Dropping New Missile Is a 'Wake-Up Call' for Washington.


'' It should be a wakeup call that we don’t have a monopoly
on the capability," Eric Wertheim, a US naval analyst, told
the Daily Beast. ''

'' The SS-N-30 is comparable to the Tomahawk missile .... ''

http://sputniknews.com/russia/20151009/102...-Cause-Awe.html



What is he talking about ?

They never did have ANY monopoly on antishipping missiles
from the very start.

Why should it be ''jaw dropping'' for them now, when, to this day,
they still don't have any equvialent to the AS-4 Kitchen - 300 mile range,
MACH 3.5 terminal diving (Mach 4.6 in flight at altitude), 2,000 pounder
warhead - fielded OVER FIVE DECADES ago ?

Let alone the newer seaskimming Strobile, Sunburn and Shipwrecks,
the latter two which have been around since the early 1980s.

To this day, all they have is the pathetic 550 mph, 70 mile range,
500 pounder Harpoon.

Same for the UK and French, which have similarly tiny subsonic
seaskimmers. I believe Britain bought Harpoon when they retired
Sea Eagle, and the French still rely on later marks of the Exocet.


While fictional, Barrett Tillman's scenario in his book here, of a regiment
of Backfires firing Kitchens, sinking an ENTIRE American carrier battle
group, is quite realistic and entirely feasible.

http://www.abebooks.com/Sixth-Battle-Barre.../11794922066/bd



Russia’s New Mega-Missile Stuns the Globe.

'' That makes it broadly similar to the American Tomahawk missile, ''

That's incorrect. The SS-N-30A is believed to have a supersonic
terminal homing phase. The Tomahawk has no such capability,
being subsonic all the way.




This post has been edited by Tham: Oct 12 2015, 01:03 AM

Russia's Cruise Missiles Raise the Stakes in the Caspian.

'' The 3M-14T spends most of its flight path at subsonic speeds around
15 meters above the surface, and makes a supersonic dash to the target
in its final phase. ''


http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-...-in-the-caspian