{"id":4219,"date":"2019-07-22T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:36:41","slug":"us-navy-desarrolla-sistemas-lanzadores-de-misiles-aptos-para-disparar-armas-hipersonicas-desde-sus-fragatas-y-submarinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=4219","title":{"rendered":"US Navy desarrolla sistemas lanzadores de misiles aptos para disparar armas hipers\u00f3nicas desde sus fragatas y submarinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/u>La carrera por el desarrollo de armas hipers\u00f3nicas y su empleo operacional en el menor plazo, lleva a las distintas Fuerzas a trabajar en desarrollos modulares de empleo com\u00fan, que permitan una r\u00e1pida adaptaci\u00f3n de los sistemas a las diferentes plataformas. Es el caso de los lanzadores de misiles que hoy disponen las m\u00e1s modernas fragatas, los que se desarrollan y adecuan para que resulten tambi\u00e9n aptos para el lanzamiento de los modernos misiles hipers\u00f3nicos.<\/p>\n

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\"\"WASHINGTON \u2014 With bigger, faster missiles in development and bound for the fleet, the U.S. Navy\u2019s engineers are considering installing upgraded launchers on the stalwart\u00a0Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The head of Naval Sea Systems Command,\u00a0Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, told an audience at a conference of naval engineers that the Arleigh Burkes \u2014 due to their vertical launch system and Aegis missile capabilities \u2014 were easier to keep relevant than other destroyers such as the Adams and Spruance classes. Still, with the service attempting to keep the ships longer, new launchers may be in order to pace the threat from Russia and\u00a0China, which have been developing their own hypersonic weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cVertical launch system has been a real game changer for us. We can shoot any number of things out of those launchers,\u201d Moore said. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably change those out and upgrade them for prompt strike weapons down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Putting\u00a0hypersonic weapons\u00a0on surface ships would greatly increase the effectiveness of their strike capabilities. The current main strike weapon, the\u00a0Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, is a subsonic missile that is vulnerable to evermore advanced Russian and Chinese air defenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Prompt strike, which refers to a Pentagon-wide effort to field\u00a0hypersonic weapons\u00a0to quickly strike anywhere in the world, are most likely coming first to submarines, said Thomas Callender, a retired submarine officer and analyst with the Heritage Foundation. Because subs are stealthy and can sneak in close to land undetected more easily than a surface ship, they make the most sense.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019re looking at putting hypersonics on submarines first because where you can get access,\u201d Callender said. \u201cYou can potentially then put them on surface ships as an added capability for them, but the submarines would be the priority for access and the ranges you can achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Navy is designing a new large surface combatant to replace the cruisers and ultimately the destroyers with larger missiles in mind. As a result, the ship may be fairly large, former Surface Warfare Director Rear Adm. Ron Boxall told Defense News last year.<\/p>\n

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The benefit of larger vertical launch cells is that you can pack more missiles into each cell, if you are not using the cell for the larger hypersonic missiles, Boxall said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are going to need, we expect, space for longer-range missiles,\u201d he said. They are going to be bigger. So the idea that you could make a bigger cell, even if you don\u2019t use it for one big missile, you could use it for multiple missiles \u2014 quad-pack, eight-pack, whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The missiles that would go into a larger launcher are still very much under development.<\/p>\n

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The Navy is teamed with the Army to develop a booster for a hypersonic missile, and the Army is leading a team with the Navy and Air Force to internally build a common glide body that is producible on a larger scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Radar upgrades<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Naval Sea Systems Command is also examining installation of a scaled-down version of the\u00a0air and missile defense radar AN\/SPY-6,<\/a>\u00a0under development for the Flight III DDG. The scope of that project, however, remains to be determined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are looking at a scaled-back version of the air and missile defense radar to back-fit the Flight Is and Flight IIs, similar to how we are looking for a version of the [Enterprise Air Search Radar] developed for [the Ford-class aircraft carriers] to back-fit on some of the old Nimitz class,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m not sure how many ships it is going to go on, we\u2019re still doing the design work. It\u2019s a fairly significant change to the structure of the ship, AMDR versus Spy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The purpose of the upgrade would be used to track the faster, more dynamic missiles under development by Russia and China.<\/p>\n

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The array is a smaller version of the SPY-6 intended for the Flight III DDG, the first of which is now under construction at Huntington Ingalls Industries. The SPY-6 destined for DDG-125 will have 37 radar modular assemblies, or RMA, which are 2-foot-by-2-foot-by-2-foot boxes that use gallium nitride technology to direct radar energy on air targets. The Flight IIA version will have 24 RMAs in the array.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A version of the radar planned for the FFG(X) future frigate is a nine-RMA configuration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Navy wants to upgrade all of its DDGs to Aegis Baseline 9 or higher with a ballistic missile defense capability and extend the service lives to 45 years as part of an effort to grow the fleet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the Navy is going to try to get 50 years out of its Flight IIA ships. The IIAs make up the bulk of the DDG fleet, with 46 total planned for the service \u2014 DDG-79 through DDG-124. DDG-127 will also be a Flight IIA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

That upgraded SPY-6 will be far easier to maintain than the current SPY-1D. Raytheon claims the radar can be maintained by simply removing an RMA and switching it out with a new one, with the rest of the work performed offsite.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Fuente:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.defensenews.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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