Posted on 08/10/2011 8:51:40 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
As China launches aircraft carrier, Taiwan presents 'aircraft carrier killer'
On the same day China began sea trials of its first aircraft carrier, Taiwan hailed its most advance missile, dubbing it an "aircraft carrier killer".
Taiwan's Hsiung Feng III missile is unveiled against the backdrop of a billboard depicting a missile-riddled aircraft carrier Photo: AP
During the preview for a defence exhibition on Wednesday, Taiwan brandished the indigenous Hsiung Feng III missile against the backdrop of a billboard depicting a missile-riddled aircraft carrier.
The billboard bore the words: "Aircraft carrier killer."
The Hsiung Feng III has made two previous public appearances in Taiwan and has been deployed on Taiwan's Perry-class frigates but has never been described as anti-carrier weapon.
Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949. China still claims Taiwan as its own and vows to bring it back to the fold by force if necessary.
China on Wednesday has embarked on its inaugural sea trial, according to the defence ministry, in a move that is likely crystallise fears of China's rising naval power among its smaller neighbours.
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Good stuff.
It has ram jets, so it would presumably be Mach 2
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If I recall correctly, the Soviets gussied up a lesser model airplane and had it execute a flyover during the Mayday parade. The Allies thought the Soviets had a new plane. This missile may be the same sort of thing. It could just be a model; perhaps while the real thing is under development. The big thing from the Taiwanese standpoint is to deter the Chinese, not to fight them.
We should support Taiwan in every way we can.
[ We should support Taiwan in every way we can.]
Yes becasue the US government is selling them out to China.
We need to support them as citizens.
Looks like a copy of the old LTV missile designed for a supersonic antiship bid. Little bit bigger, but identical intake design.
It is indeed ramjet powered.
Those are clearly supersonic ramp intakes. Looking at the tail of the thing, that is one wild hybrid. I don’t see a way to do pop out wings though, so that is confusing.
“The HF-3 missile uses a rocket-ramjet propulsion system, with two side-by-side solid-propellant jettisonable strap-on rocket boosters for initial acceleration and a liquid-fueled ramjet (believed to be using JP-10 fuel) for sustained supersonic cruise. The missile features a wingless design with four strake intakes and four clipped delta control surfaces aft. The air intake design arrangement was reported to have been optimized for evasive maneuvering at terminal sea-skimming altitudes. The missile is designed to be capable of way-pointing and can be programmed to fly offset attack axes to saturate defenses. It is also capable of high-G lateral terminal “random weaving” maneuvers to evade close-in defenses.”>
http://www.peopleforum.cn/viewthread.php?tid=92611&extra=page%3D1
The MM version used a single under-nose intake, the LTV looked just like what the pic shows. Neither had any more control surface than what you see in the pic.
This is old tech, am sure either company would be glad to recoup some of the $$ spent developing those toys by selling to Taiwan. The guidance would be the new stuff, the propulsion old news.
The basic platform and cruciform intake geometry must work well though, that missile had the navy peeing their pants over twenty years ago, wondering how to counter it.
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