A US Navy Blue Angels pilot demonstrates sea skimming technique in a "sneak pass". The image shows a condensation cloud from a high-speed shockwave. (2005)
Sea skimming is a technique many anti-ship missiles and some fighter or strike aircraft use to avoid radar, infrared detection, and to lower probability of being shot down during their approach to the target.
Seaskimming is a technique many anti-ship missiles and some fighter or strike aircraft use to avoid radar, infrared detection, and to lower probability...
Ukraine, the Russian cruiser Moskva was sunk in the western Black Sea by sea-skimming Neptune missiles of the Ukrainian armed forces while the Russians claimed...
Mod 1 Improved Sea Dart. Upgraded version 1983–1986. Updated guidance systems possibly allowing some capability against sea-skimming targets and much...
requirements between 200 and 300 kg. The missile is claimed to have sea-skimming and loitering capability, i.e., it can go round a target and perform...
the French Navy downed an American GQM-163 Coyote target simulating a sea-skimming supersonic anti-ship cruise missile travelling at Mach 2.5 (3,000 km/h...
The RB-04 (Robot 04) is a long-range seaskimming fire-and-forget air-to-surface, anti-ship missile. The missile was known as the "RB-304" during development...
predecessor, NSM is able to fly over and around landmasses, travel in seaskim mode, and then make random manoeuvres in the terminal phase, making it...
destroyers and aircraft carriers. Most anti-ship missiles are of the seaskimming variety, and many use a combination of inertial guidance and active radar...
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