Iran and its impressive use of remote controlled explosive boats

[Mithridates]

Autonomous doesn't guarantee protection from electronic disruption

i'm sure they considered that when designing this.

 

[hussainb72]

Al-Madinah was commissioned in 1985 was hit in 2017, 32 years old!, it doesnt have any modern system, doesnt have combat Management system(i couldnt find it), go mr propaganda!

So even after showing you prove that the system was effective, and discussing how such a system would really be used in a combat situation, you still keep bringing different reasons as to why such thing wont work. Those Al Madinah ships do have a fire management system that controls the equipment on board, as well as IR and electro optical sensors connected to the system. Basically stuff you can find even in "modern" ships. So your point is wrong and this is the end of our conversation.

Autonomous doesn't guarantee protection from electronic disruption

It has electro optical sensors that can pick targets and engage them even if the radio signals are jammed.

A document that has some details about the vessel attack on the Al Madinah ship.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAEegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1FyE0aBt5gpLMiH3YIAQen

 

[kris]

So even after showing you prove that the system was effective, and discussing how such a system would really be used in a combat situation, you still keep bringing different reasons as to why such thing wont work. Those Al Madinah ships do have a fire management system that controls the equipment on board, as well as IR and electro optical sensors connected to the system. Basically stuff you can find even in "modern" ships. So your point is wrong and this is the end of our conversation.


It has electro optical sensors that can pick targets and engage them even if the radio signals are jammed.

A document that has some details about the vessel attack on the Al Madinah ship.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.conflictarm.com/download-file/?report_id=2550&file_id=2564&ved=2ahUKEwi8oNCUqe3pAhUImRoKHaSrCOQQFjAEegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1FyE0aBt5gpLMiH3YIAQen

Good technology

 

[Philosopher]

The serious damage such suicide boats can cause aside, another very important effect they have is forcing the defending naval vessels to target these boats, instead of lets say the cruise missile boats etc. Naval vessels today are very vulnerable to speed boat strategy, and what little capability they have against them they have to focus on a segment of the threats. This is a great force multiplier.

 

[Aspen]

The problem is that people like you dont really think how such a thing will be used in combat. You would focus on the equipment itself without even considering a real combat scenario. Iran isnt the houthis to try sending 1 of such boats alone and trying to get something out of it, and I am sure even the houthis wouldn't really try that but the last time they used it was for testing, but they still killed 2 saudi sailors and injured a couple more.
Iran will use it in a scenario where several fast attack crafts will be moving around, shooting rockets and missiles at the targets. In between those, there will be a couple of these vessels. The ship wont just be targeted by such fast moving targets only, the ships crew will have to worry about all the cruise and ballistic missiles being launched at them. And on top of all that, you can see above that the vessels are equipped with electro optical and IR sensors, so even EW and jamming is used, that thing should have some sort of an automatic target finding algorithm which isnt that hard to implement, which makes it target any ship infront of it. So it's not really as easy to shoot or intercept as u might think and will be able to do work.
Dont comment next time if you dont really know the real capabilities of something.
Thanks

Yeah I think these explosive boats are effective for a reason. ECM is one thing but you're not gonna use ECM if you don't know there's a threat. A small boat lurking around your ship is not gonna give the advance warning of a missile launch far away. Missile will automatically trigger ECM but a random boat doesn't guarantee any reason to auto trigger ECM.

 

[925boy]

modern ships have ES/EW suites to detect and break radio signals, if they are not able to break the radio link or something like autonomy from approaching boat ,They can fire with gun/missile/laser etc.

sorry you cant hurt a modern ship with this tactic.

warships still get hit.....South Korea's got hit by NK, Israel's got hit by hezbollah, even AQ hit USS COle in Persian GUlf...warships are very vulnerable when there is competence,determination and capability on the other side.

i said "modern ship"
Houties fired c802 against US ship but intervened by the ship, so they need to invent other methods

Lets be honest- US Navy ships stopped being a priority for Houthis. If Houthis REALLY wanted to hit them, they might have succeeded already. Also, US navy stopped patrolling Yemen (or did so from more distance away, )for a while and left the security to GCC navies.

Al-Madinah was commissioned in 1985 was hit in 2017, 32 years old!, it doesnt have any modern system, doesnt have combat Management system(i couldnt find it), go mr propaganda!

Pls tell us about the upgrades it received since it was born. full story pls.

 

[BATMAN]

modern ships have ES/EW suites to detect and break radio signals, if they are not able to break the radio link or something like autonomy from approaching boat ,They can fire with gun/missile/laser etc.

sorry you cant hurt a modern ship with this tactic.

Breaking radio signal is not enough, boat directed in a direction will continue to travel without radio control.
Such weapons are only useful for terrorist activities, in a war its useless.
Clearly Iran is trying to provoke an armed conflict, may be they are having some ideas about the war situation.