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Stuart probably did something like this back in the day.....

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Please note that the firepower/saturation things are for a relatively ECM-free environment. Later in the report there's graphs for a heavy ECM environment.

An raid package on a CVBG postulated in the paper is:

2 x BEARs as Strike Commander and Backup Strike Commander
10 x Submarines launching 2 x SSMs each
8 x BLINDER IIs carrying AS-4IIs
2 x BLINDER II ECM Jammer craft
30 x BLINDER Is carrying AS-4Is
6 x Blinder I Jammers
60 x Badgers with one AS-2 each (last phase)

From start to last missile impacts from the Badgers, the entire attack takes only 32 minutes....

Some pK values found:



Set I represents early estimates of missile kill capabilities.

Sets II and III reflect the latest BuWeps estimates of these values, Set III, however, includes assumed reductions in the home-on-jam kill capabilities of the various systems.

D.1.5 TYPHON System Description

The TYPHON Weapon System comprises an advanced fixed array radar (AN/SPG-59), which performs search and fire control functions; a long-range missile (LR TYPHON--Mach 3.0 to 4.0, 100,000-ft maximum altitude, 200 nm range); a medium range missile (MR TYPHON—Mach 1.25 Lo 4.0, 90,000-ft maximum altitude, 40 nm range); associated launching, handling, and magazine equipment; and a central control system, which provides data processing.

The radar has sufficient power and data-processing capability to operate effectively in a heavy countermeasure environment; it also has high capacity tracking and guidance, which permits rapid fire. For this study, channel availability constraints for TYPHON were computed in accordance with the following rules:

(1) Ten track-while-scan (TWS) channels are required for a TYPHON missile in terminal guidance, as opposed to one for midcourse guidance
(2) A maximum of 100 TWS channels are available
(3) No more than 30 missiles can be guided in flight at any time
(4) The terminal guidance phase is of 18 sec duration prior to intercept.

The maximum number of guidance channels (midcourse and terminal) available to the system at any point in time, or the constraints imposed by (2) and (3) can be expressed as follows:

10 (Terminal) + Midcourse ≤ 100
Terminal + Midcourse ≤ 30

The normal mode of TYPHON guidance consists of a command midcourse phase and a ground controlled semi-active homing phase.

The Long-Range TYPHON nissile is, in fact, the SUPER TALOS, which has a cruciform delta wing configuration with control flippers located at the wing trailing edges. The missile is ram-jet propelled and is boosted to flight speed by a solid propellant booster of approximately 362,000 lb-sec total impulse. The missile is fitted with either a continuous rod high explosive warhead or nuclear warhead weighing 150 lb. Only the HE warhead version was considered in this study. This missile is fired from a modified dual-rail MK 10 TERRIER launcher.

The Medium-Range TYPHON missile, or SUPER TARTAR, is of standard TARTAR aerodynamic configuration. This missile is also fitted with a 150-lb warhead. Propulsion is provided by a dual-thrust, solid propellant rocket motor. The missile is launched from a modified single-rail MK 13 TARTAR launcher.

A third variant af the TYPHON missile was considered for this study. This missile has a maximum range of 100 nm and a maximum .,ltitude of 100,000 ft, envisaged as an MR TYPHON with a solid rocket sustainer and a separable booster. In the study it is identified as the Intermediate Range TYPHON or IR TYPHON and is fired from the MK 10 TERRIER launcher.

The study further considers an alternate employment of the LR TYPHON missile wherein the missile is limited to line-of-sight trajectories and is provided with two-channel-simplex guidance by AN/SPG-553 radar.