Tank131
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One comment it does not make difference if you have 70km Sam or 12 km range sam as most of air lunches anti ship missiles out ranges the sams so an effective sam is and should be the requirement, very reason usn using ram and other which are much shorter range then all Russian anti ship missiles or matter of fact other anti ship missiles, along with phalanx
Lastly able to handle saturated attack’s such as 2-4 anti ship missiles at the same time
I dont agree. The range of. The SAMs is very important. The SAM is more to shoot down the missile than the aircraft carrying it. The USN uses multi tier approach for air defense, starting with SM-2/6 which can engage targets from hundreds of km away. At medium ranges ESSM, can engage targets at 50km away. And RAM/RAM2 from 12-22km away respectively. And inside of 5km you have the phalanx ciws. The long range weapon gives you more opportunity to defeat the incoming missile. So it absolutely matters on the range of your sams.