HVM (Star streak) No it was to replace the Javelin blow pipe manpad missile (Not to be mix up with the newer American AT System) not the Rapier Air Defence system
Nothing has replaced Rapier which was a SHORAD. It was just decommissioned and mostly scrapped. Sky Sabre is really too big and bulky to be considered a replacement. StarStreak with Martlet (which uses the same launches) is being used as a rapier replacement because there is nothing else. The Starstreak lack the range needed to defeat the latest Russian attack helicopter missiles which have ranges of 8-11km.
-A note to everyone: Stinger has been useless against front line Russian aircraft for over 1 year now. The mechanical Rosette Scan is easily jamed by the V370 or President DIRCM "Directional Infrared Counter Measures" system on Russian aircraft. In this system a combination of radar and infrared sensors locate the incoming missile and pulsed laster light is shone into the seeker of the missile to saturate, dazzle and seduce it. The pulses are offset from the mechanical scan frequencies. Flares do the rest. -A plan to replace the Stinger mechanical seeker with a imaging model based on that of the AIM-9X in 2016 was cancelled on budget grounds. -A lot of our weapons are being jammed. You need to know. -People need to know. This is what happens when the money is wasted in Afghanistan.
2:58 your animation of the Stinger is backwards you're firing out of the the back side instead of the front😂😂
the best thing about starstreak is that it can be used against ground vehicles as well. those tungsten darts are lethal
Right. The worst thing is that it's not fire and forget.
Thank you for this awesome video!
Starstreak making it the fastest short range surface- to - air missile system in the World. Over Mach 4.
HVM (Star streak) No it was to replace the Javelin blow pipe manpad missile (Not to be mix up with the newer American AT System) not the Rapier Air Defence system
I like the specs on the engagement and targeting ranges, which might be a little short of reality.
Actually at the second stage burnout StarStreak is travelling at more than mach 4 not mach 3, almost hypersonic.
Starstreak replaced Blowpipe/Javelin not Rapier.
Javelin is for ground targets IE tanks, not Surface to Air.
Shorts javelin was the upgrade of blowpipe and was surface to air but is a completely different missile then the modern javelin anti tank missile
Nothing has replaced Rapier which was a SHORAD. It was just decommissioned and mostly scrapped. Sky Sabre is really too big and bulky to be considered a replacement. StarStreak with Martlet (which uses the same launches) is being used as a rapier replacement because there is nothing else. The Starstreak lack the range needed to defeat the latest Russian attack helicopter missiles which have ranges of 8-11km.
How about covering the mortar system.I use to be a mortar maggot.
8:55 Mistral
14S Hooah
-A note to everyone: Stinger has been useless against front line Russian aircraft for over 1 year now. The mechanical Rosette Scan is easily jamed by the V370 or President DIRCM "Directional Infrared Counter Measures" system on Russian aircraft. In this system a combination of radar and infrared sensors locate the incoming missile and pulsed laster light is shone into the seeker of the missile to saturate, dazzle and seduce it. The pulses are offset from the mechanical scan frequencies. Flares do the rest.
-A plan to replace the Stinger mechanical seeker with a imaging model based on that of the AIM-9X in 2016 was cancelled on budget grounds.
-A lot of our weapons are being jammed. You need to know.
-People need to know. This is what happens when the money is wasted in Afghanistan.
Ease of use? Minimal training ? Are you kidding & ))))