SEA SERPENT
Surface to Surface Missile (SSM)
Highlights
- Deploys an innovative RF seeker head
- Overcomes both kinetic counter-fire and electronic countermeasures
- Incorporates mid-course updates from real-time ISTAR feeds
- Range significantly in excess of 200 km
- All-weather
SEA SERPENT is the Surface to Surface missile IAI is offering to the Royal Navy's SSGW programme. It delivers an agile, highly penetrative, combined anti-ship and land attack capability at ranges significantly in excess of 200 km.
Deploys an innovative RF seeker head and a sophisticated data analysis and weapon control system to provide precise target detection, discrimination and classification.
Overcomes both kinetic counter-fire and electronic countermeasures of increasing sophistication, so that the missile can locate and attack its target in littoral, open-ocean and overland environments.
It is especially designed to prevail in contested, congested and confusing situations characterised by large numbers of decoys, disrupted reality and heavy electronic interference, as well as clutter from land and false returns.
In fast-moving situations, SEA SERPENT incorporates mid-course updates from real-time ISTAR feeds and the ability to re-task in flight, especially in cooperative engagements and distributed sensor-and-shooter networks.
As the most advanced ship-launched anti-surface missile in the free world, SEA SERPENT also offers significant Military Off-the-Shelf Solution (MOTS) advantages in terms of cost, time-to-procurement, entry into operational service and risk reduction.
