Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Britain Unveils The Most Advanced Missile System Known To Man At the Paris Air Show


New British Missile Three Times As Fast As Current Weapons -- The Telegraph

Travelling at three times the speed of sound and skimming the sea at wave top enemy sailors will have just three seconds to react before they are hit by the latest British-designed missile.

The Perseus missile will be the most sophisticated weapon in its class travelling at Mach 3 or 2,000 miles an hour, three times the speed of existing weapons.

In midflight it can deploy a further two baby missiles that can help it straddle a ship with devastating firepower or seek out extra targets or confuse surface-to-air missile batteries.

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More News On The Perseus Missile System

MBDA Unveils Naval Warfare Missile Concept -- Aviation Week
New missile will 'kill fewer civilians' -- The Independent
MBDA’s Perseus Shows One Vision of the Future -- Defense News
AIRSHOW-France eyes sea-launched cruise missiles -- Reuters

My Comment: I am not at the Paris Air Show, but I suspect that the 'Perseus Missile System' is what everyone is looking at, and talking about.

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