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The CUDA's PROBLEM from what I have been told is if anything it is ACCELERATING TOO FAST!!

I have been told the current issue with the CUDA is the BURN RATE....and Lockheed Martin is having a problem controlling this burn rate as the CUDA is a SMALL DIAMETER/SMALL LENGTH HYPERSONIC MISSILE.

The Solid Rocket Fuel which is highly explosive and packed extremely dense in such a small diameter and small length missile when ignited will bring the CUDA quickly up to Hypersonic Velocities as in a little over a second or at the most 2 and as I posted right now Lockheed is having problems controlling this burn rate as it is burning much too fast.

So getting up to high velocities is not the problem.

What IS the problem is you have the CUDA which is designed to be a Medium Range Missile like the AMRAAM AIM-120 Series Air to Air Missile which is carried by the F-22 Raptor.

The Raptor also carries Heat Seeking Sidewinders but both the AMRAAM AIM-120C and D.....as well as the Heat Seeking Sidewinders will BOTH be replaced by either the Lockheed Martin CUDA or the Raytheon equivalent of the CUDA as depending upon which internal bay Wheel Carriage Missile Ejection System they choose.....one carries 3 and another carries 4 CUDA sized air to air missiles thus allowing either up to 12 to 16 CUDA's to be carried by the F-35 and anywhere from 12 to 24 carried by the F-22 Raptor.

This when deployed will allow both the F-22 and the F-35 the ability to shoot down everything from Enemy Aircraft, incoming head on enemy air to air missiles as well as destroy Cruise Missiles.....as the combination of the CUDA's Hypersonic Velocity and the use of the same Guidance used for the SM-3 AA/AMB/ASAT.....will allow tracking and CUDA missile guidance to directly impact missiles traveling in excess of 14,500 mph.

So any BVR Air to Air Missile fired head on or coming in at an angle an F-22 or F-35 could turn into the F-22 or F-35 can fire a CUDA which will track nd be directed at an enemy BVR Air to Air Missile....then impact and destroyed it.

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The Starstreak 2 missile is a hit to kill missile that incorporates 3 fragmentation warheads, this missile only goes to just over mach 3.

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/defence/starstreak-ii

I take it the fragmentation warheads are used as lethality enhancer due to the slower speed of the missile compared to the CUDA or is it just a different concept?

 

Well the Startreak II actually has as a part of it a fragmentation warhead and this is a lethality enhancer due to the slower speed of the missile.

Both the Lockheed CUDA and the Raytheon version of the CUDA obtain such a high rate of velocity which is hypersonic in it's nature and the fact that they have the absolute best tracking and targeting system in the world which allows them to impact a missile or aircraft at such a high velocity and at a point the computer controlled targeting system determines which create the greatest possible impact damage for this missile that a force enhancer is not necessary.

Remember the CUDA is using the very same tracking and targeting system that allowed a SM-3 lauched of a U.S. Navy Cruiser the Lake Erie to destroy....JUST....JUST....a Hydrazine Booster Fuel Tank that was just a PART of a failing satellite traveling at 14,500 to 16,000 mph at ORBITAL DISTANCE.

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