The French Defense Ministry held regular, second in a row, the latest phase of testing a promising anti-ship missile Sea Venom, transfers “Warspot” with reference to the portal navyrecognition.com. The missile was launched from a helicopter AS 565 Panther and successfully hit the target, Using infrared guidance head.
Sea Venom (English. - "sea poison") It represents subsonic anti-ship missile "stokilogrammovye class", designed for launch from helicopters. Due to the warhead with an infrared guidance system, it can be used to destroy any type of surface and ground targets.
rocket development was started in 2014 year in the interests of the French Navy and the UK. The new rocket should be replaced at once two types of anti-ship missiles - British Sea Skua and French AS15TT.
The missile has a Sea Venom 2,5 m in length, 200 mm in diameter, weight 110 kg and "high subsonic" flight. The stated maximum range of defeats the purpose of 20 km. Rocket engine starting after separation of uncooled thermal imaging medium comprises GOS Safran development with advanced image processing (with the possibility of integrating the supplemental channel for semi-active laser homing), two-way communication channel for engaging the operator in the control loop, and armor-fragmentation warhead weight 30 kg. While the missile may fly autonomously in several modes, including flight at extremely low altitude above the sea surface, operator management will provide such regimes as perenatselevanie during flight, Correction / clarification pickup point and secure the cessation of the job.
