China PREPARES for WAR: Hypersonic missile able to smash targets 300 MILES away LAUNCHED

H/t reader squodgy:

“Why not use it as a shore based missile?”


China PREPARES for WAR: Hypersonic missile able to smash targets 300 MILES away LAUNCHED:

CHINA has test fired a hypersonic missile capable of hitting target 300 miles away in the air, it has been claimed.

One the country’s J-16 strike fighters fired the giant missile earlier this month.

Experts at Popular Science magazine analysed pictures of the event an estimated the missile measured 19 feet long and was 13 inches wide.

One of the experts, Jeffrey Lin, said the launch of the missile was a “big deal”.

He said: “This missile would easily outrange any American – or other NATO – air-to-air missile.”“Reports are that the size would put it into the category of a very long range air to air missile (VLRAAM) with ranges exceeding 186 miles, likely max out between 250 and 310 miles.’

“Additionally, the VLRAAM’s powerful rocket engine will push it to Mach 6 speeds, which will increase the no escape zone (NEZ), that is the area where a target cannot outrun the missile, against even supersonic targets like stealth fighters.”

With a new radar system, missile is also understood to have a thrust boost to supplement its manoeuvrability.Last year a Chinese scientific journal reported that once fired by a fighter jet, a VLRAAM could fly 15km upwards to a 30km altitude before it is guided by long range radars to hurtle at hypersonic aircraft into stealth bombers and fighter jets to destroy them.

s-400

Dubbed the ‘Growler’ by NATO, the S-400 is an anti-aircraft missile system
The news has emerged just days after top military chiefs revealed the Kremlin was deploying much-feared Iskander and S-400 long-range missile defence systems deep inside Europe.Iskander missiles are nuclear-capable and the deployment to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad puts vast swathes of Europe in the crosshairs of Moscow’s short-range ballistic missile programme.

With a range of roughly 300 miles, the Iskander missile could hit targets as far away as Berlin, Poland and Sweden with an atomic warhead.Dubbed the ‘Growler’ by NATO, the S-400 is an anti-aircraft missile system that can cover short and long-range targets.

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1 thought on “China PREPARES for WAR: Hypersonic missile able to smash targets 300 MILES away LAUNCHED”

  1. Shore based systems, to reach effective altitude takes more time giving the target more time to get away, and requires more power and fuel to remain effective due to low altitude air density, tragectory angle, climb distance and many other factors so a bigger engine….more fuel ….more weight….results in a bigger missile and defeats THIS weapons purpose.
    Then add the launching aircrafts flight distance from time of alert! How large an air defence bubble are we getting now?

    And then to believe that china has a air to air system that has these properties and not a LARGER shore based equivalent system? If not before then certainly in the works

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