Chinese Missiles News & Discussions

[cirr]

DF-21D in action

Four tests were carried out between Nov. 2014 and July 2015 at this base.

 

[星海军事]

DF-21D in action

Four tests were carried out between Nov. 2014 and July 2015 at this base.

I suppose the missile in these photos is DF-21C.

 

[grey boy 2]

DF-10A

DF-26

 

[grey boy 2]

DF-31A

DF-5B

 

[Dungeness]

 

[Tiqiu]

After the first appearance at Airshow China 2014, Chinese WS-43 Miniature Attack Cruise Missile System (Loitering Attack Munition) was being displayed in Russia recently.

WS-43 can carry warhead of 20 kg to a distance of 60km and stay over the battlefield for up to 30 minutes. It is designed to find, track and engage moving as well as hard to hit reverse slope targets.

The US(Lockheed Martin) terminated its XM501 loitering rocket development program after its poor performance test and high cost in 2011.

 

[Beast]

After the first appearance at Airshow China 2014, Chinese WS-43 Miniature Attack Cruise Missile System (Loitering Attack Munition) was being displayed in Russia recently.

WS-43 can carry warhead of 20 kg to a distance of 60km and stay over the battlefield for up to 30 minutes. It is designed to find, track and engage moving as well as hard to hit reverse slope targets.

The US(Lockheed Martin) terminated its XM501 loitering rocket development program after its poor performance test and high cost in 2011.

Its like a swarm of bees and work as a team will be devastating.

 

[wiseone2]

Israel has loitering munitions

 

[Skull and Bones]

So it's basically a low cost short range cruise missile launching out of a MBRL, pretty sleek.

 

[Oldman1]

So it's basically a low cost short range cruise missile launching out of a MBRL, pretty sleek.

Reminds me of this.

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/04/navy-preparing-launch-swarm-bots-out-cannons/110167/

The military’s swarm robots move from sea to air with a new program to shoot drones.

The U.S. Navy will launch up to 30 synchronized drones within one minute, possibly from a single cannon-like device, in what marks a significant advance in robot autonomy. The drones, when airborne, will then unfold their wings and conduct a series of maneuvers and simulated missions with very little human guidance over the course of 90 minutes.

Navy officials announced on Tuesday that they intend to stage a key demonstration of the swarm bots from what the Navy is calling a “tube-based launcher,” essentially, a big cannon, next year.

The program, which the Navy is called Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology, or LOCUST, marks a significant advance in applications for robotic swarming software. In August, the Office of Naval Research, or ONR, which is behind the program, demonstrated a swarming configuration of 13 robotic boats on Virginia’s James River. The boats were able to perform a variety of tasks to protect a high-value ship from incoming craft.

Getting flying robots to coordinate maneuvers isn’t new. In this 2012 demo, University of Pennsylvania researchers show how they were able to turn a set of small quad-helicopter drones into autonomous musicians.

But preprograming a musical flight path for consumer quadbots is different from getting fast-moving military drones, possibly armed, to spontaneously and autonomously collaborate and perform missions in the air. In conversation with Defense One at Navy League’s Sea Air Space conference outside of Washington, D.C., Lee Mastroianni, director for the LOCUST program, discussed some of the complex differences between swarm boats and flying swarm bots. The Navy needs robots that can join together, break apart and conduct missions individually, collaboratively, and spontaneously.

“In 3-D space you’re doing maneuvers, so that’s very complex. The other part of it is the ability to disaggregate and re-aggregate components,” he said. That means telling the drones “I need three of you to break off and go kill something or do some [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR,] come back and reform,” said Mastroianni. “It’s very, very dynamic.”

The challenge also represents an ambitious goal for shrinking onboard processing capabilities. “I can’t put a mainframe computer on there. It’s a case of needing very efficient processing,” he said.

The Navy’s swarm boats were guided by lasers and radar, but run primarily by a Rubik’s Cube-sized processing unit called the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing, or CARACaS. The LOCUST project will borrow from the pervious effort but the ultimate solution will be very different.

For the LOCUST project, the Navy is relying on Coyote drones manufactured by Sensintel, an Arizona-based company recently acquired by Raytheon. Coyotes have proven especially useful to the special operations community as well as in various types of scientific research. Last September, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, dropped a Coyote drone from a canister into Hurricane Eduard to study the storm.

Future flying swarms wouldn’t be limited to Coyotes. But the smaller the drone, the easer the wings can be folded into a capsule that can shot out of the cannon, er, “tube-based launcher.”

“How do you get a lot of birds up in the air quickly? That drives you to a canister launch configuration,” said Mastroianni. “I’m platform-agnostic. If you’re looking at a swarm of 20 or 30, there’s no reason why you couldn’t swarm Predators,” he said. “But when you get into something like the Predator, they want them back. They’re not going to be one-way missions.”

Some national security thinkers, most notably Paul Scharre at the Center for New American Security, or CNAS, argue that cheap swarm robots with increasing autonomy are key to maintaining air dominance in the new century.

“Individually, robotic systems can provide warfighters significant advantages in a range of missions,” he writes in his report Robotics On the Battlefield Part II, the Coming Swarm, published last year. “Collectively, swarms of robotic systems have the potential for even more dramatic, disruptive change to military operations. Swarms of robotic systems can bring greater mass, coordination, intelligence and speed to the battlefield, enhancing the ability of warfighters to gain a decisive advantage over their adversaries.”

 

[cirr]

Hit your enemy from above

Attack your enemy from afar

DF-21X, the AWACS killer

China is putting a lot of efforts and resources into the development and deployment of integrated air and space defence/attack systems that are made of @Bussard Ramjet

a variety of long-range(300km-2000km), highspeed(hypersonic, reentry deceleration, Mach 5 terminal) and precision missiles that are capable of downing high value air targets such as stealth fighter jets, AWACS and strategic bombers.

Being able to destroy a slow-moving target like CV 2000km(or 4000km or 6000km or...) away is definitely not the end of the story.

 

[cirr]

dddddhm -> dddddfj -> ddddddddd???

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

dddddhm -> dddddfj -> ddddddddd???

What does this mean?

Also your tags aren't appearing in my notifications.

Finally post something more related to China science.

 

[cirr]

What does this mean?

Also your tags aren't appearing in my notifications.

Finally post something more related to China science.

Nuclear fusion

http://www.cas.cn/syky/201609/t20160913_4574537.shtml

 

[星海军事]

dddddhm -> dddddfj -> ddddddddd???

Some anti-ballistic missiles themselves actually ARE ballistic missiles in some ways