Posted on 11/06/2022 4:40:34 PM PST by FarCenter
China’s Xian H-6K strategic bomber has been spotted carrying a new type of air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM), emphasizing its anti-access/area denial (A2/AD), carrier-killer and standoff strike capabilities against US bases and forces in the Pacific.
This month, The Warzone reported that H-6K, serial 11097, was seen with a pair of new underwing missiles possibly derived from the hypersonic CM-401, a truck or ship-launched anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) with land-attack capabilities that was first launched in 2018.
The report noted that the new ALBMs combine the CM-401’s formidable combat characteristics with the increased standoff range of the H-6K.
According to the state-run Global Times, the CM-401 is a new type of hypersonic ballistic missile that it claims can travel up to Mach 6 at up to 290 kilometers, can be launched into a near-space trajectory and maneuver at hypersonic speeds.
Upon reaching its target, the CM-401 can perform a terminal diving attack wherein the missile abruptly pulls up upon starting the terminal phase of its flight.
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How is this possible with proper diversity and groomer training?
China’s MIC doesn’t have to bribe all their CONgress and Senial tors first.
Perhaps the “Thousand Talents” program had something to do with their capabilities?
The same way our intercontinental missile guidance and MIRV technology ended up in Chinese hands. The same way the Russians got the bomb, it was sold or given to them by American leftists.
The Blackbird took a long time to turn at speed.
This missile should be going about twice as fast.
Makes you wonder how effective it’s turning actually is.
China’s best and brightest have been attending America’s top technical universities for decades now. I’m not convinced they need to steal anything anymore.
I assume you have to do it with thrust vectoring or separate thrusters rather than aero.
It’s probably more efficient to produce a weapon system in a few places, instead of piecing it out to subcontractors in a hundred Congressional districts and possibly a few allied nations.
Memo to jornos: use active voice verbs and your headlines will make more sense.
Forget Russia, China is the main threat to us in the future. It already is.
You are absolutely correct about that. Also, they are stealing any info or technology they can their hands on at university as well.
Although the costs of the F-35 program are astronomical, the chances of congress cutting them are slim. While a $1.7 trillion price tag is high, it amounts to a drop in the bucket when spread across all American taxpayers, a fact that keeps the public conveniently apathetic.
The benefits, however, are concentrated, which means beneficiaries like Lockheed Martin will zealously encourage the continued spending. And, as if by design, F-35 subcontractors are spread over 45 states and a total of 307 congressional districts, meaning most congress members can be subjected to pressure from their constituents if they speak out against the program.
Propaganda.
An ALBM is NOT in the same class as hypersonic ALCMs.
The idea here is to reduce probability of interception. Anti-ballistic missiles depend on the missile having a ballistic trajectory, a powered flight missile or a maneuvering one presumably mitigates this.
This may work, depending on where in its flight plan we are talking about. The description of the final approach seems to indicate that it is still vulnerable to point defenses.
I agree with you on that.
“The same way our intercontinental missile guidance and MIRV technology ended up in Chinese hands. The same way the Russians got the bomb, it was sold or given to them by American leftists.”
Pretty much so.
“China’s best and brightest have been attending America’s top technical universities for decades now. I’m not convinced they need to steal anything anymore.”
That’s a type of theft in itself.
Agreed. A Mach 5 missile in dense atmosphere needs to be pointed pretty precisely at the target. If it tries to maneuver close to the target the miss errors can increase exponentially. The final run in can be very fast, but it should be predictabl.
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