Posted on 12/01/2010 9:28:30 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
China discloses new SD-10 combat capabilities
By Robert Hewson
China's SD-10 beyond visual range air-to-air missile (AAM) may be a considerably more capable weapon than has hitherto been believed. Officials from the SD-10's manufacturer, the Luoyang Electro-Optical Technology Development Centre (LOEC), say the SD-10 was designed from the beginning to function with a dual-mode seeker operating in distinct active and passive radar homing modes. If so, the SD-10 (and current production SD-10A) are the first AAMs to enter service with this acknowledged capability.
In lengthy discussions with LOEC at the Airshow China 2010 in Zhuhai between 16-21 November, the operating modes of the SD-10 were described to Jane's in detail. The missile has an active-radar terminal homing capability which has been public knowledge since the first details of the SD-10 were officially released in the middle of the last decade.
What has remained unspoken until now is the missile's claimed ability to home in on radar or electronic warfare emissions from the target aircraft, without support from the launch aircraft or use of the missile's own active seeker modes.
A LOEC official told Jane's that the passive mode was not intended to be the missile's primary targeting method - and cited the risks to friendly aircraft when relying on passive guidance mode alone. It is not clear if the SD-10's seeker can continuously alternate between active and passive modes in flight, or if it makes a less sophisticated
(Excerpt) Read more at janes.com ...
Looks kinda like an AIM-7...
The PLA purchased a modified version of the Sparrow from the Italians in the 80s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LY-60_/_FD-60_/_PL10
And Obama wants us to unilaterally disarm.
Why isn’t the “SD-10” written in Chinese?
China is capable of creating very powerful and useful weapons. They aren’t hamstrung by procurement rules that are more about compliance than execution.
For them, it is “you want it, you got it” — paid for by a pretty robust semi-capitalistic economy.
If this what they are showing us, what do the have they are NOT showing us?
We know that the CIA was disemboweled by carter, then clinton and what vestiges are left are concentrating on the Middle East.
We should be very, very concerened.
They steal every thing technology midgets.
>>Why isn’t the “SD-10” written in Chinese?<<
I think Chinese doesn’t work that way — individual letters and numbers are usually depicted using the Western alphabet...
The Clintonista?
SD-10 is the export designation. No point writing it in Chinese if you want customers looking at it.
Pakistan signed up for the type a few weeks back.
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