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Originally posted by slabsides45:
My public school math says that's about 1.5 miles per second muzzle velocity. A MiG-29 can go about 1520mph, per Google, so that is about ~0.42miles per second.
So for aerial targets 3 miles out (ridiculously close), that EM round would take 2 seconds from fire to intercept, and in that 2 seconds any deviation from calculated flight path would likely mean a miss, right?
I see this as a spectacular land to sea weapon (ships are sitting ducks with this), or land to land. Maybe I'm missing something?
A Mig getting to within 3nm of an HVU during a hot war would be a situational awareness failure. Anyway, your scenario is why there is layered defense.