Sea Skua

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The Sea Skua is a small, rocket-powered, sea-skimming missile used in antiship warfare. It was successfully fired from helicopters during the Falkland Islands War in 1982. This missile utilizes semiactive radar homing and weighs approximately 325 pounds. Antiship missiles, in general, are designed to overcome the robust defenses of warships. Their development accelerated after World War II, driven by advancements in electronics and guidance systems, distinguishing them from ballistic weapons by their ability to make course corrections to track targets.1

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In that conflict the British Sea Skua, a small, rocket-powered, sea-skimming missile with semiactive radar homing, weighing about 325 pounds, was fired successfully from helicopters, while the Argentines sank a destroyer and a containership and damaged another destroyer with the solid-rocket-powered, active radar-homing French Exocet, fired from both aircraft and…
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In that conflict the British Sea Skua, a small, rocket-powered, sea-skimming missile with semiactive radar homing, weighing about 325 pounds, was fired successfully from helicopters, while the Argentines sank a destroyer and a containership and damaged another destroyer with the solid-rocket-powered, active radar-homing French Exocet, fired from both aircraft and…
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