But then he'd crib every single day for the rest of his life that there's no RBU-6000 on his private island and how his island is defenseless against a PLAN submarine assault. Leave it
Won't be cost effective to use AIM-132s in CIWS role unless there's a local production line and also a substantial order from IAF and IN to achieve economies of scale. Just for an idea, as of now some 1,10,000 Sidewinders have been produced.
Not much is available in public domain and whatever is seems to be is just fan-made.
So the only thing I can do is shitpost. The BrahMos seeker made by DataPatterns have a detection range of 20km and gimbal steeriabilty to ±40° in azimuth. So the S-maneuver can't be initiated before radar lock on (20km) and the max yaw can't be more than 40° from the boresight as it would break the lock. In short...
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But here's my doubt; in head-on engagement shouldn't the "efforts" done by an interceptor be lesser? Like
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• BrahMos is detected
coming head-on
• an interceptor is launched immediately and 6-7sec later the BrahMos starts the first leg of its maneuver
• it sharply turns 40° and travels some 5km. For BrahMos it's a considerable effort
• but to maintain a LoS the interceptor missile needs to just gradually change its yaw to a maximum of only 16°
Furthermore, as I've mentioned earlier that it's not a dynamic maneuver but rather just a preprogrammed path. If a fighter is maneuvering then nothing's is certain, it can randomly go anywhere. But in case of BrahMos no matter what S, F, K maneuver it does, in the end it'll still come towards the ship only. So this too helps in making interception slightly easier. If BrahMos is starting a S-maneuver then pitch up the interceptor instead of following it and wait for it to finish it's electric boogaloo, once two or there turns have been made then pitch down your interceptor and slam from above.
There's no data on this but generally I've seen a 10-15sec delay between two subsequent launches from the same unit. But these are for bigger Tomahawk sized missile, for ESSM this should be smaller. But even if we don't consider this then also it won't be a serious factor as there are atleast 8 other units so with all the VLS firing you'd get a sustained rate of fire of a missile every 1.25sec.
So in 5 sec a BrahMos would've covered (5*3*340) = 5.1km but you too would have launched (5/1.25) = 4 interceptors.
Instead of a simple 32 interceptor Vs one missile, this thing highlights something else.
Russian attacks are always in swarms with multiple types of weapons fired at the same time; subsonic cruise, Shaheds, aero-ballistic and supersonic AShMs. So if we too are successful in creating a similar scenario for a Type-055 then we can also lower their effectiveness to just may be 16:1 for LR-AShM.
To be honest,
only then we'd be able to do
