Re: INS HANIT = Israel's USS STARK?


Christophe Chazot wrote:
Having a hit ratio of 98 per cent does not alone make the C-802 one of the
best anti-ship missiles of the day. The hit ratio depends on weather / sea
state condition, on the opposing ESM / ECM, on the settings that had been
given to the missile before its launch (final altitude, maneuvers, type of
radar search and the like).
OTOMAT Mk1 and MM38 EXOCETS also had a hit ratio higher than 98 per cent
twenty years ago but that was in ideal conditions and no one would tell that
their old-fashioned guidance calculator make them top among today's
missiles.

Not sure either that the sub-launched version of the C-802 is operational
yet.

Best regards,
Christophe Chazot

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According to the Jerusalem Post, the ship struck by the ASM was one of
the three Sa'ar 5 ships built at Ingalls in the 1990s.

I understood that these ships were quite capable as AAW ships, fitted
with both a 20-mm CIWS system and the indigenously-designed BARAK SAM
system.

Was someone--the ship's commanding and/or tactical warfare
officer--asleep at the switch when the C-802 ASM got past all the AAW
defenses and slammed into the ship?

I'm guessing more than one was fired at the target. Also this from
fas.org's
website:

"The hit probability of the Yingji-802 is estimated to be as high as 98
percent. The Yingji-802 can be launched from airplanes, ships, submarines
and land-based vehicles, and is considered along with the US "Harpoon" as
among the best anti-ship missiles of the present-day world."

Also according to fas.org Iran received 60 of an ordered 150 YJ-802's /
C-802's in 1997.

Mark


Are looks deceiving here, or is the C-802 essentially a Chinese version
of SS-N-25 Switchblade?

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