I am not fully convinced of the advantage of supersonic AshMs.
To maintain their range and speed, they have to fly at a higher altitude which means an easier detection, although your warning time is still short.
There are reasons why they cannot fly very low. The faster and lower you are, the more you have to deal with turbulence issues.
The lower you are, the more you cannot evade. It is easier at higher speeds to overtorque your controls, so instead of being able to minutely fine tune your altitude, you over do the adjustment and end up hitting the surface.
Since supersonic AshMs have to be much bigger to house fuel, they are inherently less agile than smaller, subsonic missiles.
But then of course, the ROCN is covering both bases with the HF-IIE, and while Standards have shown to be capable of intercepting supersonic missiles (well, more like Vandal drones instead of the true thing), the PLAN does not have Standards.
To maintain their range and speed, they have to fly at a higher altitude which means an easier detection, although your warning time is still short.
There are reasons why they cannot fly very low. The faster and lower you are, the more you have to deal with turbulence issues.
The lower you are, the more you cannot evade. It is easier at higher speeds to overtorque your controls, so instead of being able to minutely fine tune your altitude, you over do the adjustment and end up hitting the surface.
Since supersonic AshMs have to be much bigger to house fuel, they are inherently less agile than smaller, subsonic missiles.
But then of course, the ROCN is covering both bases with the HF-IIE, and while Standards have shown to be capable of intercepting supersonic missiles (well, more like Vandal drones instead of the true thing), the PLAN does not have Standards.
