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To: DaxtonBrown

“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


16 posted on 08/10/2011 9:35:50 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
That's a hoot, the second pic is a Soviet SS-N-22 Sunburn, not the Taiwanese part. Look at the folding control surfaces for tube launchers, and the totally different intakes.

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.

19 posted on 08/10/2011 11:22:24 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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