A completed Missile Article

[DFW]

Also, just thought I would share. Sea wolf VLS is f-ing scary.

I wonder if this was protecting those British ships during the Falklands war?

 

[AdrianH]

Now watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFLioTQUkuw&feature=related

At about 2:07 you get to see a Seaslug missile being loaded - that's Sea Dart's predecessor. Note that before it appears above deck and gets onto the launcher, it has a bit of a journey from the magazine - that probably applies to the video of Sea Dart launching as well, although you don't see it. At about 2:35 the missile actually fires. And, bringing this in the general direction of back on topic, at about 2:40 it destroys a spaceship, presumably gravitic as the spaceship has no visible M-drive exhaust.

 

[barnest2]

I wonder if this was protecting those British ships during the Falklands war?

Not the VLS version, but the original was...
It was used for multiple shoot downs during the war, mainly on A-4's

 

[DFW]

I wonder if this was protecting those British ships during the Falklands war?

Not the VLS version, but the original was...
It was used for multiple shoot downs during the war, mainly on A-4's

A-4's? Not sure which missile that is.

 

[barnest2]

A-4's? Not sure which missile that is.

A-4 skyhawk, the attack aircraft. HMS broadsword shot one down, and it got an IAI dagger.
HMS brilliant on the other hand got three skyhawks with her missiles. (she also went south carrying a pair of nuclear depth charges)

Those were the only two ships carrying sea wolf

 

[DFW]

A-4's? Not sure which missile that is.

A-4 skyhawk, the attack aircraft.

I forgot that they were fighting against some antique aircraft.

 

[barnest2]

I forgot that they were fighting against some antique aircraft.

Hey, the Argentinians still fly them as do the Brazilians (both as front-line fighters)

 

[DFW]

I forgot that they were fighting against some antique aircraft.

Hey, the Argentinians still fly them as do the Brazilians (both as front-line fighters)

Really? That's hilarious considering that Brazil has a pretty good domestic airplane manufacturing industry.

 

[barnest2]

Really? That's hilarious considering that Brazil has a pretty good domestic airplane manufacturing industry.

Well, the brazillians have it as a naval fighter.
They mainly fly these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMX_International_AMX
Or these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_2000

Which are much less crappy.
However, the navy only has the A-4's... everything else is copters...