{"id":197965,"date":"2007-12-28T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/adventures-in-bad-desense-technology-reporting\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T22:37:00","slug":"adventures-in-bad-desense-technology-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/adventures-in-bad-desense-technology-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Bad Desense Technology Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen the story all over the net about successful Russian test launch of the RSM-54, or Sineva<\/a> from the Tula, Delta IV class submarine earlier this month.<\/p>\n

There was much talk about it was a “hybrid ballistic missile that in its final stages becomes a modified cruise missile” is actually a bit of a misnomer.<\/p>\n

…., is a hybrid ballistic missile that in its final stages becomes a modified cruise missile. In this guise, the warhead cannot be targeted by anti-missile systems that rely on a ballistic trajectory for their calculations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a misnomer. What we have is called a “MARV”, MA<\/span>neuverable R<\/span>eentry V<\/span>ehicle, and it is fairly old news.<\/p>\n

The Pershing II which actually reached deployment in the 1980s in Europe before being retired under the INF treaty had such a system, though not for ABM evasion, they coupled it with a terminal radar for a CEP under 30 meters.<\/p>\n

For a strategic system it would likely be used for evasion, and there are reports of it being used on the Trident reentry vehicles.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can see see the aerodynamic surfaces, and the radome on this picture of a Pershing II launch from Wiki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen the story all over the net about successful Russian test launch of the RSM-54, or Sineva from the Tula, Delta IV class submarine earlier this month. There was much talk about it was a “hybrid ballistic missile that in its final stages becomes a modified cruise missile” is actually a bit of a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1096,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-missile-defense","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}