CM-400AKG: Pakistan's supersonic carrier killer

[SQ8]

Mate the attack vector of this missile is almost vertical @ Mach 5+. Imagine what a conventional warhead will do to a carrier at those velocities!

Even then... if it manages to punch a hole in 2 ft of steel.
Its not sinking it.. just putting it out of the war effort.

 

[Hyperion]

Even then... if it manages to punch a hole in 2 ft of steel.
Its not sinking it.. just putting it out of the war effort.

Mate a kinetic impact @ 5 Mach!!!! It won't be a hole of 2ft!

 

[SQ8]

Sinking a large ship like the carrier is not easy.
Heck look at the history of the USS yorktown in wwII...
Back in the cold war.. the US was prepared for a massive cruise missile attack on its carriers.
Even then.. it knew that they would at most be disabled.. Sinking a carrier may work with a large torpedo..
like the type 65 torpedo.

A large Cm like the Babur.. operating at Wave length.. and aiming for the soft lower belly of the carrier has a much higher chance of creating a gaping hole that floods and sinks the carrier.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Mate a kinetic impact @ 5 Mach!!!! It won't be a hole of 2ft!

@Hyperion,
It is not the size of the hole (of water ingress) but the size of the compartment (in the ship flooded) that will be the determinant of whether the ship will sink or not. Now all warships (actually all ships) including Carriers are subdivided in a number of water-tight compartments. This is done to minimise/control progressive flooding.
Incidentally this aspect of ship design and construction in modern times took primacy after the sinking of the Titanic.
My knowledge of Naval Architechture and Damage Control allows me to agree with what Oscar has been saying. Actually, his choice of the USS Yorktown as illustration is particularly appropriate.
If the W/T compartments are well closed down and D/C control measures are well employed, its no easy task to sink a Carrier.

 

[bloo]

Something straight out of 70s and retired from most AFs around the world... oh yes it must have.
I would suggest you to read few good books on radars, antennas and wave propagation before making audacious claims to which rest of the world's audience laugh.

My question still stands "How does the seeker of your missile which has smaller aperture size than the aircraft's radar picks up and tracks the target when the aircraft's radar fails to do so.. for the mentioned range of missile which is upto 240km.".. the different frequency bands between the missile seeker and aircraft's radar considered.

If you have slightest of weight behind what you keep spraying all around in this forum you'd be able to answer this... more so that you are a think tank here and people seek you thinking advice... its time you gave one.. about this one.

Chillax dude its not like its a cruise missile that it'll have a complicated trajectory.

 

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[Safriz]

400 Kg warhead on a 900kg missile?

 

[Safriz]

MBDA Perseus has 400 kg warhead on an 800 kg missile,but thats a scramjet.

If CM-400 Can carry a 400 kg warhead,can it carry a nuclear warhead?

I would say it can.

 

[Safriz]

The warhead size is 100kg more than Brahmos

 

[Safriz]

@Hyperion,
It is not the size of the hole (of water ingress) but the size of the compartment (in the ship flooded) that will be the determinant of whether the ship will sink or not. Now all warships (actually all ships) including Carriers are subdivided in a number of water-tight compartments. This is done to minimise/control progressive flooding.
Incidentally this aspect of ship design and construction in modern times took primacy after the sinking of the Titanic.
My knowledge of Naval Architechture and Damage Control allows me to agree with what Oscar has been saying. Actually, his choice of the USS Yorktown as illustration is particularly appropriate.
If the W/T compartments are well closed down and D/C control measures are well employed, its no easy task to sink a Carrier.

Hello,
Since you know naval architecture,you may be aware of "Metacentre" height and "Free surface effect"?
Once the CG has gone above Metacenter the ship WILL capsize,as that's what laws of Buoyancy dictate and no ship design can change that...
True that these ships are divided into multiple compartments to limit water ingress,but it all depends on where the missile hits and the prevailing weather conditions....
The aircraft carrier has to have large continuous spaces below flight deck

If the second deck is breached and water enters,and then the ship experiences roling or pitching,the water will splash around and free surface effect will play with GC and Metacentre....


Another thing is structural integrity..

These missiles are designed to act as a blow torch,due to their momentum and shaped charge warhead...
On impact it will cut through the ship's structure,and again it depends on which parts of the ship's structure the missile cuts through..If only the shell is breached and none of the major girders are cut then it wont make much difference as by design a ship can withstand loss of a certain percentage of strengthening components..
But if main girders are severed,and the ship experiences rough seas then it may start a domino effect and the whole ship may break into two...

 

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[Sanchez]

"CM-400AKG"'s bigger brother used by PLAAF weighs 1.8 tons, shoot faster and has longer range, a real carrier killer...

 

[Hyperion]

What's the name - could you kindly post the specs as well?

"CM-400AKG"'s bigger brother used by PLAAF weighs 1.8 tons, shoot faster and has longer range, a real carrier killer...

 

[Fsjal]

The CM-400AKG looks good. Will China use this missile or not.

 

[Viper0011.]

If CM-400 Can carry a 400 kg warhead,can it carry a nuclear warhead?

I would say it can.

I would say it can too. However, just because it 'can' doesn't mean it WILL. Doing that would be starting an escalation that will have a spiral effect beyond anyone's control!!!