Titre : | Study of the effectivity of railgun against current and future naval threats |
Auteurs : | Isaac Manderyck, Auteur ; Johan Gallant, Directeur de thèse |
Type de document : | Thesis |
Editeur : | Brussels [Belgique] : Royal Military Academy, 2017-2018 |
Article en page(s) : | 91 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
6.45 Génie civil, militaire et minier > Génie militaire > Stratégie militaire > Science militaire |
Tags : | Military weapons ; Military art and science |
Résumé : |
When we compare naval warfare during the period of the Roman Empire with contemporary
naval warfare, we can clearly see that the technologies used have evolved drastically. The tech- nologies of naval combat and the encountered threats for warships have also changed enormously since the end of the Second World War. The development and the use of the rst guided missiles at the end of the Second World War marked the onset of the decline in importance of naval artillery. This resulted in British frigates being built without any main gun armament in the 1970s. However this was reversed later when the British rediscovered the usefulness of naval guns for naval bombardment and warning shots during the Falklands war in 1982 [1]. Another heritage of the Second World War is the use of aircraft carriers. Submarines were also more extensively used. Since the conict in Korea and the conict on the Suez Canal, amphibious warfare vessels were introduced. These three factors changed the naval battle-space completely [1]. The cold war created a unique opportunity for the development of anti-ship and ballistic mis- siles. A typical missile of the Second World War was the German Hs 293. It was an air-launched radio guided missile piloted by a bombardier on the aircraft. The missile achieved a maximum speed of about 240 m/s [2]. After the cold war much progress was made in missile technology. The Russian 3M-54 Klub, developed in the early '90s, had a maximum speed of approximately 870 m/s (Mach 2.9). This missile had a combination of sensors (e.g. inertial, radar) and did not need human manipulation for guidance. The missiles were no longer exclusively air-launched. They could also be launched from a surface ship, submarine or coastal battery [3]. Near the end of the cold war another way of naval warfare made its entrance. During the tanker war (1984-1988), which was part of the Iran-Iraq war, Iran discovered a way of coping with technological inferiority. Instead of trying to procure the most advanced weapon systems, the Iranian Navy switched to an asymmetric way of warfare. They used small patrol boats and swarming tactics to overwhelm the enemies' defences. It is obvious that defending against a swarm of small, high speed crafts is dierent from an attack with an anti-ship missile [4]. |
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