Anti-Tank Platoon or Anti-Tank Battery? - 24 Vertical Launch JAGMs on a WAPC
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A companion piece, also from Rheinmetall: the Skyknight from the UAE's Halcon.
A 35 kg missile (about half the weight of a Sidewinder and twice that of the Mistral, RBS-70 and Starstreak. It has a range of 10 km.
It is vertically launched from a sea can with an ISO-20 holding 60 in ready to launch attitude. It can launch individual missiles, groups, ripples or a single salvo.
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A 35 kg missile (about half the weight of a Sidewinder and twice that of the Mistral, RBS-70 and Starstreak. It has a range of 10 km.
It is vertically launched from a sea can with an ISO-20 holding 60 in ready to launch attitude. It can launch individual missiles, groups, ripples or a single salvo.
Skyknight (missile) - Wikipedia
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Consider a tactical package with a single sensor vehicle, a Skyknight vehicle and a pair of JAGM/Brimstone vehicles, perhaps a command vehicle, a security det vehicle and a rover, all sporting C-UAS RWS systems for local defence. All mounted on wheeled APC/PMV.
1x 19 km radar
48x 16 km SSMs
60x 10 km SAMs
7 vehicles
~ 22 personnel
Add in the requisite sUAS systems.
I suggest that for the navy such a grouping would be a light coast patrol vessel employed to control the littoral when backed by heavier forces.
I also suggest that a hundred such groups would deny a lot of terrain to incursive forces. I further suggest that even with lots of artillery the assaulting force would have great difficulty in disrupting all the roads in the network over which such a force would travel.
Keep your tracks for the schwerpunkt.
And for those places where there are no roads (and by amazing coincidence, no people).
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PS a C-UAS RWS would have a 30mm M230LF. The unit would have 7 of them for all aspect point/local defence.
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JAGM has a 16 km range, is fire and forget with a MMW seeker and a warhead effective against tanks, aircraft, ships and structures......
Who wants it?
Been slowly reading up on it, such a fascinating evolution of the tank destroyer. Pair it with drones for spotting and targeting and it may prove to be an absolute menace to anything it faces on the battlefield.
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It reminds me of a BattleTech SRM launcher.
It's cool to see MechWarrior/BattleTech getting closer to reality.
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