HMS Richmond launches Sea Ceptor missiles against Houthi drones

[@alphalunamare]

It is kind of the houthi's to enable us to test our weapon systems. Had they been around 40 years ago we might not have had so many problems with Sea Dart. All exercise is good exercise.

[@tarscase7653]

True. Ultimately, while it may be high cost compared to the relativity cheap drones used by Houthi and other actors in red sea, it is prepping RN for engagement with near peer enemy.

[@heuhen]

@@tarscase7653 I find it stupid to compare the price of the drone against the missile, when we should compare the price of the target that could be hit by that drone, compared to a missile. But also compared to a human life

[@anubizz3]

@@heuhenThen stop Gaza wars.... or non white life have less value in your eye?

[@nathanielwhite8769]

Absolutely, great way of thinking, Cheers!👍

[@scrottydyer_6821]

This is cope ngl

[@nathanielwhite8769]

Excellent work! This is exactly what Sea Ceptor was designed for. This will hopefully be a very valuable validation of this weapon system for the Royal Navy, as well as, all of the other Sea Ceptor export customers, which in turn will hopefully drive future Procurement Contracts and further development of this System ie, Missile Guidance Technologies, Quad-Packing and the future CAAM-MR Requirement.👍

[@257squadron]

Expensive way of doing things

[@dynamo1796]

But also effective. Zero risk, guaranteed kill. Any modern navy would happily fork out extra money for that sort of deal.

[@UAPJedi]

Can these be replenished and rearmed at sea?

[@graveperil2169]

no

[@OnlyAnOpinion20]

The problems with these videos is getting a real sense of scale, as the ships are huge. Depending on the variant, these missiles are between 3m-4.2m in length and can weigh in excess of 150kg, it would be possible, but with a lot of hard work as you'd need a small crane and quite a dangerous job, but it could be done. The biggest problem would probably be having to find somewhere safe to store them, it's better to just quad pack them and go out with enough for the task at hand.

[@owainwilliams7993]

@@graveperil2169yes they can

[@graveperil2169]

@@owainwilliams7993 thats strange as every one seem to think that VLS all have to be reloaded in dock like Diamond was at Gibraltar, trying to lower a missile by crane into a silo when the supply ship and the warship are both going up and down at different times is likely to result in a few bent missiles

[@lukeallison3713]

With tremendous effort,.time and questionable safety,.yes. Even the mk 41 payload module on Burke and tico took hours to reload at sea. The only mitigating factor is that sea ceptor is significantly smaller and lighter than essm

[@davidlo3809]

A 1p coin in exchange of a £50 note 😂

[@senonarisworo8241]

Price for 1 sea ceptor could be between USD 500k-1mio. Whilst Houthis drones price could be between USD 40k-100K. It's a good deal !!!

[@slintank]

yeah but the cost of their targets is even higher

[@verdebusterAP]

Instead of triage the problem with shooting down drones, how you about you deal with the problem at its source in Yemen permanently

[@filicefilice]

❤❤❤❤

[@calumscott8737]

This is economic warfare insanity. Using a 6 or 7 £ figure interceptor to take out a 4 figure drone. The Houthis will exhaust Richmonds entire stock of interceptors at a cost of less that £300K

[@graveperil2169]

still need to prove trident works after the last two launches

[@calumscott8737]

@@graveperil2169 agree 100%

[@CJB-]

Yes I know they are an enemy but spare a thought for the poor souls in these aircraft.

[@tigerland4328]

They were drones

[@bengale9977]

I wonder what the unit cost of a Sea Ceptor is and if we will run out of them before Yemen run out of $2,000 drones?

[@sa00287]

Yawn. Your life must be so boring

[@Retrosicotte]

The drones in Yemen do not cost 2k. They cost a lot more than that. Shahed's were revealed to cost 350k+ after all, and they are the cheap ones.

[@iainreid9822]

And I wonder what the unit cost of their supposed target.

[@arakami8547]

I count 5 missile launches, would that mean 3 missed? If so, what system would then be at fault - the missile itself, the radars, the CMS and the HMI?

[@graveperil2169]

I doubt if they waited to find out before they send the second one none of them are perfect

[@derek6579]

It’s a video clip, they’re not providing Hollywood movie for our gratification, muppet!

[@KnockerW]

Its standard procedure to allocate 2 missiles for each target unless the ship is low on stocks. Probably not needed for drones, however the procedure remains the same regardless of target.

[@cease_requiem6034]

guided missile ships usually launch multiple missiles per target to achieve a high probability of kill. it's kind of wasteful but it's what works the best for the majority of warships right now. no missile has a 100% probability of kill

[@davidbevan3688]

Mushroom farm looks worryingly empty

[@nathanielwhite8769]

It’s not easy to make out, but worryingly I think you’re spot on. It is insane if HMS Richmond doesn’t have a full load-out of Sea Ceptor along with full magazines for the Phalanx and the 30mm ASCGS’s as well. Cheers.👍

[@mattp8561]

Not that the kids are off because she’s operational then…? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ThePostie501]

They looked full to me.If you pause at 0:07, 0:11 and 0:16 all the covers are off obviously but apart from the fired missiles the rest look full.

[@AverageWagie2024]

They aren’t empty

[@adamb9508]

The mushroom shape you normally see are covers that taken off before use. The fact that all are off means that she was likely full.

[@jasonking6892]

$50,000 missile on a $10 drone haha

[@adamb9508]

Both the missle and the drone are orders of magnitude more expensive than that.

[@Benjd0]

These drones keep getting cheaper 😂

[@qetoun]

You assume the Houthi's have a large budget.