Chinese air to air missiles

Blitzo

Blitzo

Lieutenant General
Staff member
Super Moderator
Registered Member
FirebirdFan said:
NATO codes/names for Chinese AAMs.
PL-10 - CH-AA-9
PL-12 - CH-AA-7 "Adze"
PL-15 - CH-AA-10 "Abaddon"
PL-17 - CH-AA-12 "Auger"

From
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
Click to expand...

To my understanding at minimum, the PL-15 NATO name is not accurate, based on what an active USN fighter pilot has written before.

I suspect the IISS is making a few assumptions.
 
T

Totoro

Major
VIP Professional
Would that imply that NATO code names are still a thing but that they are now secret?
That would certainly be strange, as even during the cold war i am not sure that soviet weapons had secret nato designations.
 
Deino

Deino

Lieutenant General
Staff member
Super Moderator
Registered Member
Blitzo said:
To my understanding at minimum, the PL-15 NATO name is not accurate, based on what an active USN fighter pilot has written before.

I suspect the IISS is making a few assumptions.
Click to expand...

do you know what name it is?
 
FirebirdFan

FirebirdFan

Junior Member
Registered Member
Blitzo said:
To my understanding at minimum, the PL-15 NATO name is not accurate, based on what an active USN fighter pilot has written before.

I suspect the IISS is making a few assumptions.
Click to expand...
Hm, this pilot did not give true name of PL-15 then I assume?

Disregard if your reply to Deino was a reply to this question as well.
 
Blitzo

Blitzo

Lieutenant General
Staff member
Super Moderator
Registered Member
FirebirdFan said:
Hm, this pilot did not give true name of PL-15 then I assume?

Disregard if your reply to Deino was a reply to this question as well.
Click to expand...

The true name was not given, only that "Abaddon" is not its name.


Totoro said:
Would that imply that NATO code names are still a thing but that they are now secret?
That would certainly be strange, as even during the cold war i am not sure that soviet weapons had secret nato designations.
Click to expand...

My understanding is that it isn't necessarily secret, but it isn't shared openly or widely outside of their user communities (in this case, being the military staff), and some level of informal consensus to not share them unless it was first used openly by other sources.
 
by78

by78

General
An academic paper on a more efficient launch method for over-the-shoulder missile launch (i.e. hitting target behind the aircraft).

Abstract: In order to shorten the response time of over-the-shoulder launch of close-range combat missiles and realize the rapid strike of air-to-air missiles on rear targets in close-range combat, a method for rapid backward launch of air-to-air missiles is proposed, which utilizes the static instability of missiles at large/super-large angles of attack, and assists with jet direct force control and terminal active rudder deflection control. In order to study the influence of preset rudder deflection, jet direct force and terminal active rudder deflection control strategy in the new launch method proposed by the institute, a high-precision computational fluid dynamics/flight dynamics numerical simulation method of coupled active rudder deflection control strategy based on dynamic nested grids is developed. The numerical simulation results show that the proposed method can complete the rapid redirection of the missile within 1.53s and keep the attitude stable and controllable in the final stage of flip. The new method can shorten the redirection time of over-the-shoulder launch to about 1/10 of the traditional method.
Click to expand...

Images contained in quotes to save space.

54097409708_1d26e454f8_k.jpg
54097493359_19470a2c36_k.jpg
54097493344_e1d6f0494b_k.jpg
54097159996_f6042d8bcd_k.jpg
54097614515_b562229018_k.jpg
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top