sea-skimming

If they can make a cheap one-way drone able to launch an AS-25K (Argentinian sea-skimming ASM, air launched, range 25+ km, passive IR fire/forget tracking) and get them to target area in numbers it should be possible to do a saturation attack on a RN convoy ship.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010

U.S. defense analysts say the missile is designed to come in at an angle too high for U.S. defenses against sea-skimming cruise missiles and too low for defenses against other ballistic missiles.

China Takes Aim at U.S. Naval Might Julian E. Barnes 2012

To stalk American carriers and the surface warships tasked with protecting them, China's navy has launched submarines equipped with advanced torpedoes and high-speed, sea-skimming antiship cruise missiles.

China's 'Finlandization' Strategy in the Pacific Andrew F. Krepinevich 2010

The Phalanx and Aegis ship defense systems may be effective against subsonic cruise missiles like the Exocets or Tomahawks, or exo-atmospheric ballistic missiles, but they are inadequate against the sea-skimming and supersonic Granits, Moskits and Yakhonts or similar types Shipwreck, Sunburn and Onyx – North Atlantic Treaty Organization codenames of modern anti-ship missiles in China’s inventory.

Firedoglake » Scott Ritter’s Overdue I Told You So 2006

The Umkhonto is to act as the Meko corvettes 'primary defensive weapon against sea-skimming missiles and other aerial threats.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

There is also a radar altimeter to control the sea-skimming trajectory, at around 10m until the terminal phase when, in calm sea conditions, the missile can descend to 3m or so.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Most of my study — performed for a customer with real life-and-death problems {e.g. tracking sea-skimming cruise missiles like the Exocet} — was devoted to the analysis of sources of error of the climate data that I was using to “Model” enhanced radar propagation {e.g. “seeing” tankers over-the-horizon in the Persian Gulf}

Bring the Proxies Up to Date!! « Climate Audit 2005

The missile system was designed to act as a ship's primary defence against incoming sea-skimming missiles and attack aircraft.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

The outermost zone, between one hundred and three hundred miles from the carrier, was patrolled by the air wing's interceptors -- F-14 Tomcats and F/A-18 Hornets -- which with their look-down, shoot-down radar capability could take on any target from a Backfire bomber to a sea-skimming cruise missile.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

Navy, Conde hoped both to shield his vastly larger consort from sea-skimming missiles and to add his anti-air assets to the carrier's defense against any pop-up targets.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994