SinoSoldier
Colonel
Does it allow for cruise missiles and / or anti ship missiles?
PLAN's MK41 has been successfully tested
- Thread starter nosh
- Start date
Does it allow for cruise missiles and / or anti ship missiles?
I don't think the article says anything about that. But it's a common VLS, interpret that how you will :-/
SinoSoldier
Colonel
We'll have to wait. If the next class of destroyers tops at near 10000 tonnes in displacement, it would suggest that the ship would be more multirole than air defense and thus the VLS could hold cruise missiles and anti ship missiles as well.
These could also potentially be deployed on submarines; the Type 095 has been rumored to incorporate vertically launched cruise missiles.
Not only SAMs and cruise missiles, but also ASW missiles too finally.
So from here:
I think they claim the VLS is launching HQ-16...
But I think the VLS is not the exact one on 054A, and the missile that's being fired isn't HQ-16 either, if anything it looks a bit like HQ-9.
So assuming the missile from the last two pics are being fired from the VLS in the first pic, maybe this is the chinese "Mk 41 VLS" we heard of a while ago... assuming it's chinese?
Also interesting that it looks like hot launch? hmmm
I think they claim the VLS is launching HQ-16...
But I think the VLS is not the exact one on 054A, and the missile that's being fired isn't HQ-16 either, if anything it looks a bit like HQ-9.
So assuming the missile from the last two pics are being fired from the VLS in the first pic, maybe this is the chinese "Mk 41 VLS" we heard of a while ago... assuming it's chinese?
Also interesting that it looks like hot launch? hmmm
Last edited:
Hyperwarp
Captain
Hyperwarp
Captain
One with the arm lever could be an early testing version or something like that. The missile reminds me of the with its wings retracted.
antiterror13
Brigadier
You should change "western navy" to USN
Really in general PLAN is more powerful and more modern than most western navies