Can MLRS rockets be intercepted by SAMs ?

[St4RgAz3R]

So i 've tried with all the avaiable SAMs that are in game to intercept rockets of various sizes 300mm, 220mm etc from MLRSs with no luck. Most SAMs can't even track the rockets. Some like patriot , nasams , s300 and sa-15 can track but while they fire upon them they can't seem to hit anything. It's like watching stormtroopers firing..  all those missiles in the air and nothing hits. I don't know if they can't hit IRL as well but i would expect, at least those big 300mm rockets which are not too fast either, to be intercepted.

Any thoughts on this? 

[Skyhammer]

vor 14 Minuten schrieb St4RgAz3R:

So i 've tried with all the avaiable SAMs that are in game to intercept rockets of various sizes 300mm, 220mm etc from MLRSs with no luck. Most SAMs can't even track the rockets. Some like patriot , nasams , s300 and sa-15 can track but while they fire upon them they can't seem to hit anything. It's like watching stormtroopers firing..  all those missiles in the air and nothing hits. I don't know if they can't hit IRL as well but i would expect, at least those big 300mm rockets which are not too fast either, to be intercepted.

Any thoughts on this? 

i reported the same but thre was no reaction to that ..and btw the 300mm at 45.000 ft are faster with ~1.9 Mach than the Uragan 220mm at the same altitude with 1.5Mach

[St4RgAz3R]

17 minutes ago, Skyhammer said:

i reported the same but thre was no reaction to that ..and btw the 300mm at 45.000 ft are faster with ~1.9 Mach than the Uragan 220mm at the same altitude with 1.5Mach

So you think it's a bug? 1.9 mach is still slow compared to a HARM which can go about 3 mach and is half the size of a 300mm rocket. So it's easier for the SAM to intercept it one would think but no.. SAMs intercept the HARM missiles and can't intercept the rockets 

[Skyhammer]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb St4RgAz3R:

So you think it's a bug? 1.9 mach is still slow compared to a HARM which can go about 3 mach and is half the size of a 300mm rocket. So it's easier for the SAM to intercept it one would think but no.. SAMs intercept the HARM missiles and can't intercept the rockets 

I don´t know it seems odd that that the SAMs just fly close right by the MLRS rocket but didn't explode...they should have proximity fuses 

[silverdevil]

2 hours ago, Skyhammer said:

I don´t know it seems odd that that the SAMs just fly close right by the MLRS rocket but didn't explode...they should have proximity fuses 

interesting. i never thought about it. do you have a tacview of it?

[Skyhammer]

vor 6 Stunden schrieb silverdevil:

interesting. i never thought about it. do you have a tacview of it?

 

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[St4RgAz3R]

15 hours ago, Skyhammer said:

I don´t know it seems odd that that the SAMs just fly close right by the MLRS rocket but didn't explode...they should have proximity fuses 

yes you are absolutely right. I took some screenshots of how close the missile comes to the rocket and still it doesn't explode. The proximity fuze just isn't working on rockets. Just look at the pictures

[Кош]

There was a vid of TOR shooting back at an incoming salvo of Uragan rockets, from the cabin with rockets creeping through the radar scope. No info if it was successful though.

[tripod3]

I thought only IDF MOD MLRS units have interceptable rockets