Anyone attacked the Kutz yet?

[FalconPlot16]

Harpoon is useless against carrier groups.

[Seaeagle]

This kind of information is not in public domain, but I get the impression these kinds of tests are done routinely. Sometimes special drones are made to simulate the anti-ship missiles and these can then be used in tests where manned ships would try to shoot them down and sometimes decommissioned ships are modified to be remotely operated and then inert or even actual anti-ship missiles are fired against them to test the CIWS systems, decoys, missiles and such.

 

Not the same thing though :)

 

The only issue is how accurately you can actually simulate a real anti-ship missile with a drone, but e.g. US Navy did purchase some SS-N-22 Sunburn missiles and test fired them in such tests in the 90s.

 

Correction - they tried to purchase them(Moskit/Sunburn), but were turned down. Instead they managed to acquire a batch of Kh-31A(IIRC in parts), which in turn they modified into target drones("MA-31") with moderate success.

[Boogieman]

This kind of information is not in public domain, but I get the impression these kinds of tests are done routinely. Sometimes special drones are made to simulate the anti-ship missiles and these can then be used in tests where manned ships would try to shoot them down and sometimes decommissioned ships are modified to be remotely operated and then inert or even actual anti-ship missiles are fired against them to test the CIWS systems, decoys, missiles and such.

 

The only issue is how accurately you can actually simulate a real anti-ship missile with a drone, but e.g. US Navy did purchase some SS-N-22 Sunburn missiles and test fired them in such tests in the 90s.

 

Yeah, the US now uses a variety of different target drones to simulate various threat ASMs. I believe the work derived from the Kh31 acquisition ultimately led to the supersonic GQM-163.

 

As has been said there has been very little real-world application of many of these systems as there simply hasn't been a major naval conflict within which to do so. The most recent example that comes to mind is the USS Mason successfully defending itself against multiple Houthi ASMs - likely Chinese made C802's.

 

https://news.usni.org/2016/10/15/cno-richardson-uss-mason-attacked-cruise-missiles-off-yemen

Edited June 17, 2020 by Boogieman