The answer to the construction of the US missile defense system will puzzle the Pentagon. Shock tandem from "Tupolev" in the game
Announced by competent sources in the Russian military-industrial complex, the start of the program for integrating the Kh-47M2 "Dagger" anti-ship / multipurpose aeroballistic missiles into the ammunition and weapons control systems of the Tu-160M / M2 strategic missile-carrying bombers was greeted with enthusiastic comments from more than one hundred observers-regular domestic eminent domestic eminent news and military-technical portals, including Military Review.
Equipping the Tu-160M / M2 strategic missile carriers with the Kh-47M2 “Dagger” aeroballistic missiles will open up new horizons for the aerospace forces in modeling the advanced containment concept
And in this case there really is a reason for pathos reflection in expert communities and in an informed audience of the Runet. Indeed, the upcoming implementation of this program by specialists of the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S.P. Gorbunova (a branch of PJSC Tupolev), Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation (KTRV) and the Kolomna Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering will turn the Dagger medium-range hypersonic missile system into a unique strategic containment tool with the “depth” of delivering order X-47M2 missiles 9500 km (taking into account the range of the Tu-160M2 missile carrier with the upgraded NK-32 turbofan jet propulsion system about 8000 km and the Kh-47M2 range of 1500 km) and the anti-missile potential of THAAD and Patriot PAC-3MSE systems deployed by the US military e not only in the territory of the Eastern European member states of NATO, but also in the continental United States.
At the same time, the Tu-160M / M2 - X-47M2 strategic strike ligament will be able to boast the following tactical and technical advantages in comparison with the White Swans standard ammunition, which is represented by nuclear sub-sonic stealth strategic cruise missiles X-101 and X-102.
First of all, it is 9-10 times higher average flight speed of the Kh-47M2 “Dagger” (8500 km / h versus 850–970 km / h for the Kh-101/102), which provides flight time to objects at a distance of 1500 km 10 minutes, while the X-101/102 cover the same distance in more than an hour and a half. As a result of this, during a hypothetical massive missile-air strike with “Daggers” against such strategically important objects as the key naval base of the Atlantic fleet US Navy Norfolk or Air Force Base and Marine Application Center aviation The US Navy in Jacksonville, at the disposal of combat crews of the Patriot PAC-3MSE missile defense systems, as well as operators of the Aegis combat information and control systems deployed on Arleigh Burke class destroyers, there will remain a negligible temporary “window” for tying the tracks and the beginning of the interception of the X-47M2, approaching at a hypersonic speed along a quasi-ballistic trajectory.
And if high-energy multifunction radars AN / SPY-1D (V) or more advanced radars AN / SPY-6 AMDR of Aegis systems can independently detect X-47M2 (effective reflective surface of the order of 0,07-0,1 sq. M) on distances of about 200-350 km (the final stage of the marching section of the trajectory) and give target designation to the RIM-174 ERAM / SM-6 ship-borne missile interceptors, the less powerful multi-functional AN / MPQ-53/65 radars of the Patriot PAC-3MSE complexes will not be able to detect the approaching "Daggers", because the detection range of ballistic targets with an EPR of 0,07 0,1-55 square meters m for these radars is only 80–73 km, and the maximum elevation angle of the scanning beam in the viewing mode is 60 degrees, while “Daggers” approaching the target at a distance of 70–80 km (the terminal portion of the trajectory) go into the dive mode at angles 85-53 degrees, going beyond the MPLS MPQ-65/XNUMX.
As a result of this, an attempt to intercept the X-47M2 Dagger aeroballistic missiles using the Patriot PAC-3MSE systems can only be carried out with the use of additional means of radar reconnaissance (AN / APY-2/9 radar aircraft DRLOiU E-3C / G and E-2D or high-potential radar AN / TPY-2 GBR), aggregated into a single network-centric missile defense system with the Patriots ’EOC (Engagement Operations Centers) combat control points using the Link-16 secure tactical information exchange network. In this case, the Patriot missile defense MIM-104F PAC-3MSE will be able to receive target designation for the "Daggers" and amid the inactivity of the multi-function radar AN / MPQ-65.
Here it is worth mentioning the second (main) technological advantage of the X-47M2 “Dagger” aeroballistic missiles, minimizing the likelihood of their interception by means of both the MIM-104F PAC-3MSE anti-ballistic missiles and the long-range SM-6 missiles. It's about the ability to perform intensive anti-aircraft maneuvers with overloads of about 30 units. on the terminal portion of the trajectory. The implementation of this mode is ensured thanks to the joint operation of the tail aerodynamic rudders and twin nozzle modules of pulsed gas-dynamic maneuvering engines.
To intercept such an object, the anti-missile must have available overloads of 65-70 units, which provides for equipping the gas-dynamic “belt” of transverse thrust engines to perform lightning-fast throws on the trajectory. The MIM-104F PAC-3MSE anti-aircraft guided missile is equipped with a similar “belt”; nevertheless, even with its presence, the maximum overloads of this missile can hardly reach 55-60G, which is not enough to destroy the “Dagger” aeroballistic missile by the method of kinetic destruction / direct hit (“hit-to-kill”). As for the long-range missiles RIM-174ERAM and interceptors of the THAAD complex, they do not at all have the ability to work on our X-47M2 Dagger missiles. The first is due to the small available overloads (30–35 G), due to the presence of only aerodynamic rudders; the second - due to the inability to intercept in the endoatmospheric region, in the dense layers of the troposphere, stratosphere and even the lower layers of the mesosphere, where the “Daggers” are operated.
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