CJ-10 launch.
Inclined launch of cruise, that too from mobile vehicle, is interesting
Chinese cruise and anti-ship missiles
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I wonder what their source is for a YJ-12 AR SEAD missile
sino JASSM?An academic paper on a certain cruise missile (concept).
Length with booster: 6.27m
Length without booster: 5.424m
Flight altitude after booster separation: 6km
Cruise speed: Mach 0.4
China already has multiple stealthy cruise missile designs that have been developed and at least one type in service (AKF-98).
This is just another LO cruise missile, with a square hull cross section.
I briefly wondered if this thing could be intended for carriage by J-20/J-35 weapons bay given it has a square cross section (not dissimilar to Kh-69), but at 5.4m in length it's a bit long for their weapons bay.
I agree! Seems like both the AFK-98 (both variants seen in the 2022 Airshow) and this new LO ALCM would be too long to be fitted into J-20/J-35’s internal weapons bay. JASSM is only 4.3 meters long, but already too big for the F-35’s internal weapons bay. Generally, for subsonic cruise missiles, the key would be low RCS. As the Ukraine war shows, non stealthy subsonic cruise missiles have little chance of penetrating multi-layered air defences, unless you can SEAD those enemy air defences first.
It's a loitering munition (stated in the article as 巡飞弹) rather than an actual cruise missile (巡航导弹), given its (cruising) speed of only Mach 0.4.
The Mach 0.4 cruise speed screams loiter capability to me. I think of something like the Delilah missile.