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Testing the Sizzler

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No i don’t mean the old strip steak place, i am talking about the Sizzler anti-ship missile that has NATO navies crapping in their hands and smearing it on the wall, and rouge countries smiling.

Well it looks like the Coyote is out chasing the road runner, and the US Navy is moving to use the GQM-163 Coyote to prepare for the Sizzler. The 18-foot long Coyote is fast, agile and a dead ringer for the sizzler in most aspects.

The Coyote is initially boosted by a Hercules MK-70 booster, of similar design to those used by the now obsolete RIM-67 Standard ER missiles. After the booster stage is expended the missile switches to an Aerojet MARC-R-282 solid-fueled ducted rocket/ramjet engine for sustaining its flight.

Here is a pic of the Wiley Coyote whizzing past a navy trainer….Good luck hitting that

Sizzler – Russian Antiship Missle

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The 3M54 SS-N-27 Klub antiship missile (known in the west by its NATO designation “Sizzler“) is potentially the most dangerous of its species around today. The missile owes its lineage to the old “Styx”, “Sunburn” and “Shipwreck” missiles that the Soviets used during the cold war. The west’s answer was the Harpoon and the famous Falklands era Exocet missiles.

The Sizzler can be launched from a standard torpedo tube of most modern submarines. Its danger comes in its incredibly fast and almost impossible to counter speed. In its terminal phase the 150 mile ranged missile separates its 440 pound warhead and travels up to 3000 km/per hour. In this phase it drops to as low as thirty feet above the surface and makes sharp evasive maneuvers to defeat the Cold War era Phalanx and Goalkeeper CIWS systems now protecting the fleets from this type of attack.

Russia is exporting these missiles to China and possibly to North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. The United States Navy as well as other NATO allies is implementing tests to come up with possible new defenses.

And the show goes on