Chinese air to ground weapons (missiles, PGMs, etc)

tphuang

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Btw, the guancha guys confirmed on their show that anything that plaaf carried to air show are in service. My impression is that they are not only in service, but also for a couple of years at least and in large numbers. So that applies to the yj21 on h6k and all the akf missiles on jh7a and the various unpowered bombs we have seen.

On yj21, the mentioned that the one on h6k is relatively old technology. It was simple to create air launched version from m20. They have had it for quite a few years already. The implication is that the one on h6n is newer and a lot more capable. I wouldn't be surprised if they are continuing to improve on this smaller air launched hypersonic fire.

On export front, they mentioned that since they already have the technology, they can sell hypersonic fire easily based on customer requirements. Doesn't need to be fitted on h6k. They can slimmer version or shorter version depending on requirements. I Imagine paf could be interested in something that would hook onto j10c to be used against Indian carriers.
 

Blitzo

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Just a question concerning the "new" 1000 kg LGB since I found both the YJ1000-1 designation and YL-5!
What's correct and what's the current one?

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The branding and names of these products are inconsistent and change every few years.

That's because most of these defense companies are bad at marketing.


So the best name we have is "YJ-1000/YL-5".
We don't yet know the official name
 

Jingle Bells

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The branding and names of these products are inconsistent and change every few years.

That's because most of these defense companies are bad at marketing.


So the best name we have is "YJ-1000/YL-5".
We don't yet know the official name
I think the grey model in the bottom picture is a HE bomb. The one that's shown in this air show is a penetrator bomb (侵彻炸弹)。
 

zhangjim

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Has anyone ever made a list of all the PGM's that China has developed? There are so many bombs and missiles that have been developed in China that I can't keep track on all of them.
If you can read Japanese, I recommend this site to you:
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It's not as good as our forum, but it's more complete than most military publications(even better than Wikipedia!).
Those game makers are perfectly capable of finding the necessary things here, if they can read Japanese or Chinese characters.
 

by78

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Just a nice image from Zhuhai.

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