Crashdown, the USN is looking at the feasibility of a supersonic successor to the Harpoon (programs like the GQM-163 Coyote help), so you may eventually see the 'Son of Regulus' in some shape or form.

Crashdown, the USN is looking at the feasibility of a supersonic successor to the Harpoon (programs like the GQM-163 Coyote help), so you may eventually see the 'Son of Regulus' in some shape or form.

 

Sweat. Between that and Fasthawk, the USN might just have an anti-shipping missile that will make the Russkies and the Red Chinese (Along with any fool crazy enough to start something) think twice about a naval confrontation.

Finded today by hazard, a schematic view of PLUTO:

http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/index.htm

Finded today by hazard, a schematic view of PLUTO:

http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/index.htm

 

OUCH!! Am I seeing that right? How many warheads is that, and at what yields?

Finded today by hazard, a schematic view of PLUTO:

http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/index.htm

 

OUCH!! Am I seeing that right? How many warheads is that, and at what yields?

 

I haven't seen anything about yields yet, but did find numbers:

"SLAM was to be equipped with multiple (between 14 and 26) thermonuclear warheads which would be ejected one by one as the missile flew over its assigned targets. The warheads were to be ejected from hatches on the top of the missile to follow a lofted trajectory to the ground. This would give the low-flying SLAM a few seconds of time to escape the blast of its own bombs. " http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/slam.html

 

The page also mentions them being thermonuclear so yield would not have been insignificant.

That and the whole thing was a flying 500 megawatt reactor- unshielded. This thing flying past you would kill you...

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Like I said, Madder than an March Hare.