A car can be travelling at 200km/hour on a motorway, and you could be walking at a speed of 3km/hour. But if you adjust your speed and direction of walking well enough, you can still hit the car.Gokhan is to fly close to hypersonic speed according to Okumus.
İkinci parti S-400 için finansal ve teknik model oluşturuldu
Türkiye'nin ikinci parti S-400 Hava Savunma Sistemi tedariki konusunda, Rusya ile finansal model ile teknik iş birliği programının oluşturulduğu iddia edildi.www.savunmasanayist.com
"Of course, hypersonic missiles have speeds over Mach 5. It is now much more difficult to stop them by air defense systems. Therefore, these are the technologies you should have when you are working with high technology in the defense industry. In this sense, we are developing our air-to-air missile operating at supersonic speeds with the GÖKTUĞ Project. With the GÖKHAN Project, we will now have an air-to-air missile that works with RamJet. It will again be a supersonic missile (GÖKHAN), it will operate at speeds close to hypersonic, but it will have much more important advantages."
S400 works somehow in a similar way. The 250 and 200km range missiles are capable of just about reach hypersonic speeds (5.9 Mach) at their apogee, then slowing down at lower altitudes. These two missiles go nearly 55-60km altitude. Therefore can reach these high speeds. The 400km range missile supposedly can go as high as 185km and reach 12Mach. But start losing speed in it’s ballistic trajectory. It can start engaging targets around 30km, and manage to hit a missile or rocket travelling at 14 Mach, or a subsonic plane like an AWACS.
It is the way the missiles are directed by the guidance systems and their engine tech that matter.
The 120km range S400 missile, has a top speed of 2.9 Mach. But it has the highest probability of hitting it’s targets, which are travelling at up to 8 Mach speed. (New extended version can hit targets travelling at 14 mach).
All S400 missiles have single stage rocket motors with ballistic trajectories and large explosive warheads which explodes in proximity to their targets.
Our Hisar range rockets with dual pulse motors are actually technically superior. They have propulsion at terminal stages. They are hit to kill systems.
I don’t understand buying more S400 batallions, unless it is in response to Rafale purchase of Greece.
(We also mustn’t forget the over-exaggeration of specs of Russian systems by their officials)
Russia Demonstrates S-400’s Hypersonic Ballistic Missile Interception Capability at Full 400km Range
Russia’s Air Defence Forces have for the first time demonstrated the full range of the S-400 Triumf surface to air missile system, intercepting a mock ballistic missile
militarywatchmagazine.com