Posted on 09/11/2014 5:55:09 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
A Hongqi-10 ship-based missile defence cell installed on a Chinese warship. Photo: SCMP Pictures China has shown off the People's Liberation Army's latest hardware on primetime state television, an advanced short-range missile defence system said to have a “high success rate” destroying incoming missiles and aircraft.
The Hongqi-10 (Reg Flag 10) surface-to-air missile was shown in China Central Television's evening news bulletin Wednesday being fired from ships and land-based mobile launchers, and exploding in the sky on impact with its target.
It will protect warships against rockets over a limited area, and will be used alongside an “area defence system” which covers a larger area but has a slower response time, the state-run Global Times newspaper said Thursday.
“As a naval point defence missile system, HongQi-10 boasts a particularly quick response to low-altitude missiles that area defence systems fail to intercept,” it quoted Lan Yun, deputy chief editor of monthly journal Modern Ships, as saying.
It cited him adding that it had a high success rate in hitting its targets.
Incoming missiles only 1.5-10 metres above sea level can be targeted with the new system, which takes only 10 seconds to launch, Lan said.
The missiles can also used to protect ground forces from air attacks by ”jets, unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles”, the Global Times report said, citing an expert.
The Hongqi-10, whose export version is known as FL-3000N, has been installed on some of China's most advanced warships including the 1,300-tonne Type 056 frigates and 7,000-tonne Type 052D destroyers, Chinese media have reported.
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We will equip those ships with large holes.
Who did they steal that design from?
Sea Sparrow?
Looks like a RAM to me, but what do I know?
Please. That was a huge torpedo, not a piss-ant Sea Sparrow or RAM.
America is about to be PASSED by China in worldwide trade, yet we continue to send businesses there.
Bring back American businesses. To America.
I was responding to the comment about leaving ‘holes’ in THEIR ships.
We won’t leave holes...it will look JUST like that.
A "Honkey-10" ????!?
Sounds a little racist.
Certainly looks like a RAM launcher ... don’t know if the ChiCom missiles are any good.
That is nearly an exact copy of an Mk-49 RAM (Rolling Airframe Missile) Launcher:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missile_Launcher_3.jpg/640px-RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missile_Launcher_3.jpg
I was part of the team that actually installed and tested one of the first of these systems when it was installed on USS Lincoln in place of the CIWS.
They’re likely to be very good because they stole the design, or more appropriately they were given this design in exchange for campaign contributions to the Clinton’s. That is the same way they were able to field MIRVed nuclear warheads, the Clinton administration allowed the Chinese to steal the designs for our W-88 nuclear warhead. This is how the Chinese are able to suddenly field advanced good quality weapon systems so fast. They purchase the rights to steal our designs through campaign contributions to dems and some repubs to make certain the claims of Chinese spying are not taken too seriously. And make no mistake they do the same to the Russians. They also field these systems for far cheaper than we’re able too because they do not have to develop the new technology it takes to field a new system because they simply steal the product after the R&D is finished, and remember, R&D are by far the biggest cost in fielding a new weapon system.
The launcher looks exactly like the RAM. The missile, a bit different. Hard to tell what the guidance modes are from the pic.
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