Re: [SG2] weapons

From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com>

> Mostly because the missiles and grenades I'm designing are a few % the
size 
> of the weapons your products defend against, so have very little spare
mass 
> and volume for counter-measures :-( Naval SSMs don't have to be 
> man-portable; my products do.

But you *may* be able to make up in volume of fire what you lose on
individual round effectiveness.

No, that doesn't help the individual with a Panzerfaust/Buzzbomb or
modern equivalent (NLAW?).
 
> So far, the best anti-PDS weapon system available to us is a .5"
sniper 
> rifle :-/

A 12-round salvo of Mortar shells, mixed jammers, blinders, and STRIX
would do the job. But just the ammo would weigh half a tonne. And
getting your own PGMs to home in means that some sensors the target
may have cannot be jammed effectively, or you get fratricide. Maybe
GPS with pre-computed-at-fire-time dead-reckoning?

Even the Yanks are developing PG mortars now.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/pgmm.htm
(Based on a German design IIRC)
They'll catch up to where Sweden was 5 years ago, in a few years anyway.

See
http://www.global-defence.com/2000/pages/mortar.html

As for the Russkis - see
http://www.rusarm.ru/products/army/smelchak.htm

Their 240mm stuff isn't exactly "Man Portable" by any definition.

http://www.rusarm.ru/exprod.htm
Is an interesting page though.