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Greater speed = more friction (IR signature) + straighter terminal approach = easier to intercept (if detected early enough)
The tables turn at mach 20 because, at that speed, a 30 km detection range gives only 3 seconds to react.
So, you mean to say that the subsonics are so slow and their friction is so less that their IR signature will be negligible ?
NOPE!
In your own words......
Unless the sea is boiling hot, the IR signature ( of subsonics, too) will stick out like a sort thumb.
In fact due to their slow speed, the aircrafts covering the fleet can bring them down with IR guided missiles (Python has demonstrated this capability but not against supersonics).
So, please no more of that more friction---- higher IR sig-----easier interception BS, it has been debunked in the American circles,too. A look at the future of American AShM program.....
ArcLight will employ a rocket booster, sustainer accelerating the weapon to hypersonic speed, from where the strike vehicle will glide at high speed, carrying a warhead weighing 100-200 pounds to strike the target with pinpoint accuracy
So, now your lord of technology agrees with us, too!
Added later....
1.Why can't you intercept your target from the front? Where is it written that you much chase it from the side or rear?
2.Remember, the interceptor is passive so the BrahMos doesn't know it's there and isn't taking evasive action.
1. Looks like a job for Superman! (at least for now)
2. What is an "S" manuever then? There are a host of measures that an AShM can take to dodge a interceptor and brahmos can do almost all of them without any significant decrease in speed!