SeaSparrow's seaborne attack. (Digest).At-sea tests off the California coast earlier this year witnessed the Raytheon Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM ESSM European Society for Sexual Medicine ESSM Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile ESSM Exercise Science and Sports Medicine ESSM Emergency Ship Salvage Material ESSM Enterprise SQL Server Manager (Sybase) ) intercept a manoeuvring, low-altitude BQM-74E subsonic sub·son·ic adj. 1. Of less than audible frequency. 2. Having a speed less than that of sound in a designated medium. subsonic Adjective target missile. The target missile was detected by the combat system of the US Navy's Self-Defense Test Ship and assigned to the ESSM. The round was then fired using inertial midcourse guidance The guidance applied to a missile between termination of the boost phase and the start of the terminal phase of flight. . The Seasparrow acquired the target, initiated terminal guidance and flew to intercept, with its proximity fuze proximity fuze n. An electronic device for detonating a warhead as it approaches a target, used in antiaircraft shells. Also called VT fuze. detecting the target and initiating a warhead fire pulse. Raytheon is developing the ESSM for the US Navy and nine of the other eleven member nations for the Nato Seasparrow Consortium. |
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