France and Great Britain received a new air-based anti-ship missile Sea Venom

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France and Great Britain received a new air-based anti-ship missile Sea Venom

The French Navy and the Royal Navy of Great Britain received the new Sea Venom air-launched anti-ship missile. This was reported by the press service of the MBDA consortium, which developed the new ammunition.

As stated in the consortium, the new aviation The anti-ship missiles have successfully passed the stage of qualifying firing tests and will soon enter service with the French and British navies. In british navy AW159 "Wildcat" helicopters will be carriers of the Sea Venom anti-ship missiles, and the H160M "Cheetah" helicopters in the French fleet. The new missile will replace two types of anti-ship missiles at once - British Sea Skua and French AS15TT.



Sea Venom ("sea poison") - subsonic anti-ship missiles "hundred-kilogram class", designed to be launched from helicopters. Due to the presence of a warhead with an infrared guidance system, it can be used to destroy various types of surface and ground targets.

Sea Venom length - 2,5 m, diameter - 200 mm, weight - 110 kg. The declared range of destruction is 20 km. Warhead - armor-piercing fragmentation weighing 30 kg.

The missile, after separation from the carrier, includes an uncooled thermal imaging seeker developed by Safran with advanced image processing (with the possibility of integrating an additional channel for laser semi-active homing) and a two-way communication channel for involving the operator in the control loop.

It has several autonomous flight modes, including flight at extremely low altitude above the sea surface. In addition, there is an operator control mode with which you can re-target the missile during flight, correct the aiming point or safely terminate the mission.
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    1. +2
      1 December 2020 13: 20
      Unfortunately, they have no problems with guidance and target designation .... (
      1. 0
        1 December 2020 14: 20

        Here is the correct Venom laughing
    2. +1
      1 December 2020 13: 31
      The range of destruction of 20 km is not enough
      1. +4
        1 December 2020 13: 47
        And dubious carriers - helicopters.
        Who will allow the helicopter to fly 20 km to the enemy ship?
        1. +1
          1 December 2020 13: 53
          Well, maybe only Somali pirates)) or the coastal zone boats are unpretentious, although the warhead and the cost, I think, will be incomparable with such goals hi
        2. 0
          1 December 2020 13: 54
          From Rka to Bpk inclusive
        3. +3
          1 December 2020 14: 04
          Quote: voyaka uh
          And dubious carriers - helicopters.
          Who will allow the helicopter to fly 20 km to the enemy ship?

          Who can drown 30kg of explosives. It is unlikely that such targets have great detection and air defense capabilities.
        4. +17
          1 December 2020 14: 46
          Apparently, the calculation is for cheapness and mass use.
      2. +5
        1 December 2020 13: 50
        normal for a helicopter.
        they will not be sent against the destroyers, their business is boats, corvettes, and light frigates at most.
        1. +4
          1 December 2020 13: 57
          Quote: Avior
          normal for a helicopter.
          they will not be sent against the destroyers, their business is boats, corvettes, and light frigates at most.

          The frigate, and the corvette, too, the helicopter will not be allowed close.
          1. +1
            1 December 2020 14: 05
            modern yes.
            frigate for sure.
            but not all the newest.
            on many there is still self-defense air defense, up to 10 km.
            Helicopters melted the Iraqi fleet at one time.
            1. +1
              1 December 2020 14: 27
              "300 years ago" laughing
              Once even "Eilat" was drowned without leaving the raid wink
              1. 0
                1 December 2020 14: 28
                Eilat - only because the rail did not have time to deliver.
                but it was still a WWII destroyer.
                1. -1
                  1 December 2020 14: 38
                  ... it was a WWII destroyer.

                  That's right, they were not weakly armored.
                  1. 0
                    1 December 2020 15: 09
                    armored is a cruiser. hi
        2. 0
          1 December 2020 16: 26
          normal for a helicopter.
          they will not be sent against the destroyers, their business is boats, corvettes, and light frigates at most.


          Everything is confusing. Who thought that "Fagot" and "TOW" would drive infantry in modern battles. So say not sparing ammunition.
          1. +1
            1 December 2020 23: 56
            Quote: Interlocutor
            So to say, sparing no ammunition.

            Why pity them? Their expiration date is ticking already. Explosives and fuel will be written off soon in time, and so it will have to be disposed of.
    3. +1
      1 December 2020 19: 21
      they do not sleep and we must not yawn

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