But so far wwe s haven't seen a YJ-62 on any aircraft. AFAIK there is not even an airlaunched variant.
And by the way the YJ-62 is not a smaller variant of the -63.
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But so far wwe s haven't seen a YJ-62 on any aircraft. AFAIK there is not even an airlaunched variant.
And by the way the YJ-62 is not a smaller variant of the -63.
Yes, YJ-62 is more closely related to CJ-10/KD-20, and it is only seen launched from a tube with a booster. On an exhibit though, the export version C-602 has no booster and has a hook on it. But not sure whether PLAN has an interest in converting it to air-launched version, even though the naming of YJ series was originally for air-to-ship missiles.
YJ-100 was once mentioned on a CCTV interview, which is believed to be the anti-ship version of KD-20. The pylon adapter of KD-20 on H-6K is similar to the shorter ones on H-6J:
A mystery until it is revealed by a photo: just hope it is not a mundane YJ-83K.
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I don't see LRASMs as being wonder weapons.
Detecting LRASMs at a radar horizon of 30km, actually means an LRASM still has 2 minutes of flight time to reach its target.
That is at least 4 full length SAM engagements.
If each SAM salvo has a pk=0.7 then only 1% of the incoming missiles would be left.
There's also an article where a US Navy admiral publicly extolls how short/medium range SAM systems are highly effective against incoming cruise missiles.
And remember an LRASM Is comparatively easy for the Chinese military to develop, compared to a stealth fighter.
Yet the Chinese military have gone with difficult hypersonic missiles, and ignored the development of an LRASM, despite having the same experimental data on stealth/radar effectiveness as the US military.
And we see that the US military is racing to field hypersonic missiles, whilst only buying a limited quantity of LRASMs over the next 5 years.
Anyway, back on topic.
Physical cross section of Lrasm is barely 0.25m², not to forget its also covered in Ram material, and skimming low over the sea providing radar bg clutter, it would be pretty tricky to sense it that far out, unless you already know the exact bearing of its launch co ordinates and path that its following.
Again, if LRASM is so effective, why hasn't China developed an LRASM?
China has a multitude of stealth aircraft programmes, so an LRASM should be easy to develop.
Yet they've gone with hypersonic missiles instead, which are far more difficult and expensive.
Anyway, back to the topic.
And here's the video:
Me again with a similar request to this post:
Besides information and some sort of diagrams concerning PLAAF AGM and AShMs mission profiles I'm also looking on any information and diagrams of PLAAF and NA bomber missions; Where have they been on "tour of duty", on exercise, forward deployment and what were the flight routes ... which additional types were accompanying them?
Again any help highly appreciated,
Best,
Deino
Chinese air to ground weapons (missiles, PGMs, etc)
I've thought about the possibility of H-20 having a secondary A2A role as well. The PLA may be intending to use H-20 as more than a mere stealth bomber -- one of the PLA affiliated media outlets directed stated in an article a year or two back that EW/ECM, data node, UAV control, ISR may be part...
www.sinodefenceforum.com
Besides information and some sort of diagrams concerning PLAAF AGM and AShMs mission profiles I'm also looking on any information and diagrams of PLAAF and NA bomber missions; Where have they been on "tour of duty", on exercise, forward deployment and what were the flight routes ... which additional types were accompanying them?
Again any help highly appreciated,
Best,
Deino
