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Sea Skua range not correct? - 3/16/2015 12:11:23 PM

strykerpsg

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Gents,

I know you're on a much deserved break, I was playing the new "Corvette Group off Bessay" scenario. In it, the British Frigate has two Sea Lynx helos, one equipped for ASW, the other ASUW, with 2 Sea Skua missiles. As I closed the distance painstakingly slowly to salvo my Harpoons, I wanted to also salvo my Sea Skua's which have an advertised range of 25 NM. I've attached a snippet of the Sea Skua data that showed in the database of only having a 1-8 NM range. Anyway, not a show stopper, but wanted to bring it to your attention

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RE: Sea Skua range not correct - 3/16/2015 12:43:30 PM

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Sea Skua has "advertised max. range" of 25 km, not 25 nm. But official range is 15 km, which is about 8 nm.

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RE: Sea Skua range not correct - 3/16/2015 2:05:22 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

Sea Skua has "advertised max. range" of 25 km, not 25 nm. But official range is 15 km, which is about 8 nm.

KM is right, not NM, my mistake......but it says the seeker head has a range of 80NM? Is that right?

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RE: Sea Skua range not correct - 3/16/2015 7:07:48 PM

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I don,t know if the seeker range is correct, but it's still a semiactive seeker head, a lot depends on the seaspray radar and launcher altitude.

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RE: Sea Skua range not correct - 3/16/2015 9:44:55 PM

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Yes, there are quite a lot of weapons out there with seekers mismatched to their kinematics. Pre-BlockIII AIM-9X comes to mind (BVR-capable seeker, weak motor).

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RE: Sea Skua range not correct - 3/17/2015 9:51:42 AM

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It's said that Sea Skua does better than 15 km (8 nm) kinematically, but I am not going to blame devs for sticking with official manufacturer figure.

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