Some "first look" impressions:
As the range of the actual engagement was at 120-100 km,
program II of the missile flight was loaded
Russian source claims that there where seen signs of detonations on scopes in both shootings. Here US source stated that missiles where
"long-range, high-altitude flight before crashing into the sea"...
- as we know, no SAM missile(except earliest mods, not simulated in SAM Sim) is intended to finish it's flight on the ground. So they shouldn't finished their flight in such way
UNLESS they where confused by the mirror reflection from the surface:
(...to be continued, probably...)
Great thread!
Please continue.
Just adding some more technical depth.
The missile safety (PIM) has 5 safety level.
(I think, it was described earlier...)We will discuss the 5th here in detail, as it might be important (and missing from the sim
) to better understand what the Libyan operators were seen.
BV - close guidanceIf the GSN is tracking the target, there is no KRO signal is visible.
When the missile approaches the target, eventually (because it arrives beside of the target) the GSN will loose it.
(target angle from the GSN >3.5 degree/sec)
At this time, the semi-active (receive only), highly directional radio proxy fuse will be switched on, and the KRO signal is active for a short time. (Not simulated in the SAMSIM)
The fuse receives the RPC signal reflected from the target, and detonation.
So the Vega crew assessing a shooting, should look for...
- receiving momentarily KRO signal.
- speed/altitude change of the target after the
target negative spike, merged with the
missile-target impact point positive spike.
... and what happens, if the V-880E flies at the dense atmosphere, with Mach6?
(clearly outside of its designed engagement zone)First the nose cone will burn, the GSN will loose target, momentarily KRO signal, missile burned and splashed.
