[Soliton]

You can shoot down a Hong-6 bomber with a sling shot. They are just Chinese kit version of ancient Tupolev bombers from the 1950’s.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Now coming armed with stand-off cruise missiles.

[sukhoi-30mki]

China’s “New” Bomber

http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.146/pub_detail.asp

[driftdiver]

“You can shoot down a Hong-6 bomber with a sling shot. They are just Chinese kit version of ancient Tupolev bombers from the 1950’s.”

Yes, but they have more bombers than you have slingshots. The chinese will happily sacrifice their people to expend your ammunition stores.

[Jeff Head]

But, they are arming them now with fairly sophisticated ALCMs. The Chinese production line for those aircraft opened up again recently and you can bet that the avionics and the electronics have been upgraaded for the purpose of using those ALCMs.

In spaces like the Western Pacific where their own continental air cover can protect them when firing numerous ALCMs on multiple targets in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc., they become somewhat more troublesome than if they were sent out long distances on their own.

[myknowledge]

H-6 Badger. Chinese clone of Tu-16. Juicy AMRAAM target.