US Navy to issue new tender for supersonic target
The U.S. Navy is studying the possibility of combining a SM-2 or MIM-23B Hawk missile with a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile to simulate a newly deployed Russian supersonic sea-skimming missile.
NPO Mashinostroyenhe’s P-900 “Alfa” missile flies as a subsonic cruise missile, but at a distance of 20km from its intended target, the front end of the cruise missile separates and begins a supersonic, sea-skimming dash.
The USN's current inventory of aerial targets has no way of allowing the navy to test how its shipborne anti-missile defences would cope against the system.
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