Posted on 03/10/2015 6:57:09 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
DH-10 Launch
Xinhui, via China Defense Forum
This clear image of a TEL vehicle launching a DH-10 provides us with a detailed look at the cruise missile; while the tailfins have deployed, the air intake and wings have not. The debris is from the breaking open of the canister, while the short cylinder attached to the missile's rear is its integrated rocket booster that brings the missile into flight before the turbofan engine starts.
A DH-10 land attack cruise missile (LACM) launches out of its canister, heading for parts unknown. Weighing about 1-1.5 tons (about the same size as the American Tomahawk cruise missile), it can be launched from land on a three missile transport erector launch (TEL) vehicle, as shown here. Shortly after ejection from the canister, the DH-10's two retractable wings, four tailfins and belly mounted engine air intake will all unfold as it flies as far as 2,500km away. Reportedly able to hit a garage door sized target, In addition to carrying a 500kg high explosive warhead toward a target with accuracy the DH-10's payload can either be a 500kg high explosive warhead or submunitions for attacking fighters on runways and tank columns, nuclear warheads and fuel air explosives. Notably, DH-10s use several guidance modes, including satellite navigation, inertial navigation, and terrain following, making it hard to jam or deceive.
Despite all the attention lavished on Chinese ballistic missiles like the DF-15 and DF-21, its cruise missiles are some of the most flexible, stealthy and deadly weapons that the PLA has at its disposal. Cruise missiles have several advantages over ballistic missiles; they can be updated during flight on battlefield changes, their low flight altitude makes them very stealthy against air defense radars, and fuel efficient turbofan engines allow cruise missiles to be lighter and cheaper than their ballistic counterparts.
The DH-10 was first displayed in public during the 2009 National Day Parade, China is estimated to have at least several hundred DH-10 cruise missiles. The flexibility of the DH-10 is its greatest strength. The 2,500km ranged H-6K bomber can carry 7 KD-20s (the DH-10's air launched variant), giving the PLAAF the ability to reach Pacific targets distant as Hawaii. The Type 052D guided missile destroyer and Type 093A nuclear attack submarines can carry DH-10s in their vertical launch systems; sea launched DH-10s can cover over 90% of all global land mass. the next generation of this family will be the YJ-100, a proposed DH-10 antiship variant that will have an onboard radar and 800km range, potentially China's answer to the U.S. Long Range Anti-ship Missile.
More broadly, future Chinese cruise missiles are likely to branch off into two families, one optimized for stealth, and the other focused on hypersonic flight. China is already investing large amounts of money into hypersonic engines and stealth technology; stealthy cruise missiles would be used to achieve operational surprise while hypersonic missiles would run past heavy enemy defenses. Other advancements would likely include electromagnetic attack technology, datalinks and distributed sensors/networks and improved AI to autonomously hunt targets in denied environments.
Gee, I wonder where they got the plans for that?
Oh $h!t. They have a small TF, think low TSFC ='s range, not good...
Drank yoo Brill Krinton...
Look’s an awful lot like the US Tomahawk cruise missile.
Remember that laser that destroyed the truck a couple of days ago?
We used to have GLCM with W80 warheads. Too bad we gave all that up to ‘appease’ the Russians.
Those filthy Chinese. They’re always hanging around on Main Street wearing an overcoat.
“Hey Baby! Wanna see my cruise missile?”
Like anybody would want to see their small little cruise missiles.
Like all lasers, requires a long dwell target dwell time, and near perfect atmospheric conditions. A cruise missile low to the ground is not going to give you that.
I wish the FR cadre of lasers as the answer to missile defense would give it up. It is only one part of the solution.
Hope and change. The guidance systems were courtesy of Brother Billy though.
Only one Democrat can ever be trusted with national security; Sheriff Clarke of Milwaukee.
I believe it, but where are the fuel tanks in such a slim, 25' airframe? If these small turbojets are so small and get such great mileage economy, why can't we have them for civilian aircraft?
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Using US parts, no doubt, while we use Chinese parts in ours.
New worries for the USA. Socrates said it best: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Someday the USA and Red China will have it out—and it will be a naval war like WW II in the Pacific. This time Japan will be on our side.
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