标题: US Navy Practices With Supersonic Missile Targets [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 7-28-2011 11:57 标题: US Navy Practices With Supersonic Missile Targets 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Press release: Orbital Launches 25th Coyote Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target Missile For U.S. Navy. Orbital, July 27, 2011
http://www.orbital.com/newsinfo/release.asp?prid=783
The graphic shows the coyote paths with (yellow) and without (white) the booster.
(b) US Navy has been testing warships' missile defense using as supersonic targets this missile and AQM-37C/D.
(i) AQM-37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQM-37_Jayhawk
(air-launched; made by Raytheon; First flight 1961)
(ii) Richard Scott, Aggressive Mimicry: Multiplying Threats Drive Improved Targets. Jane's, July 13, 2011
http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-security-report.aspx?ID=1065930049&channel=defence
Quote:
"The US Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR's) Aerial Target and Decoy Systems programme office (PMA-208), under the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, is charged with providing the US Navy (USN) with 'threat-representative aerial targets for fleet training and weapon systems test and evaluation.'
"As of mid-2011, PMA-208's eclectic stable comprised the Northrop Grumman BQM-34S Firebee and BQM-74E subsonic targets, the AQM-37C/D supersonic target and the Orbital Sciences GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target (SSST).
(c) The re-entry phase of DF-21D, if successful, is deemed supersonic.
My comment:
(a) Japanese Wiki says the origin of the name is due to the fact that remains of 徳川家康 (1543-1616) was first buried at 久能山東照宮 Kunōzan Tōshō-gū
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun%C5%8Dzan_T%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D-g%C5%AB
(at 静岡県静岡市)
and reburied a year later (1617) at 日光東照宮 Nikkō Tōshō-gū
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikk%C5%8D_T%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D-g%C5%AB
(at 栃木県日光市)
; in the midst, a make-shift 御殿 was built and the place name 御殿場 was born.
(b) Here is the tourist statistics at Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), which shows foreign visitors from Taiwan, Thailand, US and UK started returning to Japan in June (but not S Korea, China and others).
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/ttp/sta/PDF/E2011.pdf
(3) 台湾特侦组将首长特别费全数签结. BBC Chinese, July 28, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2011/07/110728_taiwan_embezzlement_investigation.shtml
("被签结者包括了连战及马英九等人。签结意谓着司法将不再调查其是否犯罪，这是因为台湾立法院在5月通过修法，将首长特别费予以除罪，即使有涉及刑事责任者也因法律修改而不必处罚")
(4) Jeremy Page, China Says Carrier Won't Alter Naval Strategy. Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903635604576472014072981554.html
Quote:
"To be effective, at least two or three carriers are required, so that at least one can remain active while another undergoes repairs, and each active one requires its own carrier group including several other vessels, according to Chinese and foreign defense experts.
"But the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Cao Weidong, a researcher with the PLA Navy's Academic Research Institute, as saying that China's first carrier was a conventionally-powered medium-sized carrier equipped with indigenous Chinese engines, ship-borne aircraft, radar and other hardware.