PLA Anti-Air Missile (SAM) systems

Figaro

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Any ideas what this new missile system is?
Researchers design new air-defense missile system
By Zhao Lei | China Daily | Updated: 2018-07-09 09:24


China has become a world leader in air-defense technologies thanks to the hard work and dedication of researchers at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp's Second Academy, the country's major developer of air-defense weapons systems.

Researchers from the academy's Zhang Yiqun Laboratory have been playing a vital role in the development of China's new air-defense missile system by designing its control systems - the "brain" of any missile.

Compared with previous generations of air-defense missiles, the new-generation missile system will have a wider range of targets and be much more technologically sophisticated, taking China into the ranks of just a handful of nations capable of designing and producing such a system.

The cutting-edge missile's control systems need to be extremely efficient and accurate, said Wang Mengyi, deputy head of the Second Academy's General Design Department and former leader of the laboratory.

"Metaphorically put, the mission of these control systems is to guide a needle to fly 1,000 kilometers to pierce the eye of another needle," he said. "For researchers from Zhang Yiqun Laboratory, their mission is to turn this seemingly impossible task into reality."

Wang said control systems are mainly tasked with working out a missile's best trajectory and making sure it can hit its target.

The successful development of China's new air-defense missile system would be unachievable if researchers at the laboratory had failed to design world-class control systems, he said, noting that they adopted new design methods that have reduced design time tremendously and improved missile performance.

Wang Xiaodong, a laboratory researcher, said members of the laboratory spent numerous days and nights improving the accuracy of control systems and optimizing the algorithms that are central to them.

"For example, we worked 10 consecutive days and slept little each day to detect and resolve one extremely rare abnormality because all of us are aware that our nation's air-defense networks can only be reliable if we are meticulous and responsible toward our work," he said.

The laboratory, named after Zhang Yiqun, a top researcher at the academy and former head of the laboratory, has been granted 11 National Science and Technology Advancement Awards and 28 National Defense Science and Technology Progress Awards due to its extensive contribution to China's air-defense networks. It has also registered more than 130 defense technology patents.

In the laboratory, members of the Communist Party of China play a vanguard, exemplary role, leaders of the laboratory said. They always take the lead in innovating, carry out their assignments carefully, with scrupulous attention to detail, and also display an inspirational level of diligence and devotion toward their work.

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ougoah

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If the metaphor he used is anything to go on, is he subtly suggesting that is it a SAM with lateral range up to at least 1000km? That's an insanely long range.
 

SinoSoldier

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Any ideas what this new missile system is?

The 1000 km altitude suggests that this is a successor or a production variant of the Dong Neng series ASAT/ICBM interceptors.

What's more interesting is this:
For example, we worked 10 consecutive days and slept little each day to detect and resolve one extremely rare abnormality...
Wow, it seems that engineering school life extends beyond even engineering school.
 
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"For example, we worked 10 consecutive days and slept little each day to detect and resolve one extremely rare abnormality because all of us are aware that our nation's air-defense networks can only be reliable if we are meticulous and responsible toward our work,"

China should really stop promoting extreme overworking as a sign of progressiveness and determination. Guolaosi have killed more skilled and experienced works and cause substantial mistake and oversight then I would care count. Plus it does not increase productivity by much anyway.

Such projects takes years to complete, so it is not so much a mad race to the end but more a "complete it with the least amount of post mistake as possible".
There is no such thing as a harmonious relationship between "working consecutive days & lack of sleep + meticulous and responsability".
 

Tam

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Which is a good point.

But on the other hand, this is engineering geek culture, this kind of work for them represents both an enormous focus of pride and obsession, with great weight on obsession.
 
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Which is a good point.

But on the other hand, this is engineering geek culture, this kind of work for them represents both an enormous focus of pride and obsession, with great weight on obsession.
There is a thing as a passion, and there is obsession. Suffice to say that tempered passion is often much more productive then rampant obsession. And it is not like the culture finds it's roots solely in geek culture as well. Japan is still suffering from constant karoshi in no small part due to the inbred mentality that loyalty to a company trumps above all else including wellbeing and health.
Not to say that these folks should start walking out the door the moment their boss gives them a short shriff. But their society should realize that encouraging near slave like labour is as far away from "productive work place" as the Sun is from Pluto.
 

ougoah

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But you've also got to understand that they are pressured by the requirements and expectations of the military tender. It's not just Chinese who "overwork", but your point still stands.
 

SinoSoldier

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A new possible surface-to-air or anti-missile system has been spotted in China. Unfortunately I could not upload the original image since it was too large.

I've done some quick reviewing and I can vouch that the vehicle & tubes do not match those of the HQ-9, HQ-22, S-300, S-400, or any other potential PLA system. It is possible, although at this point merely my speculation, that this is the much-awaited HQ-19 or HQ-20 missile system. We will have to see.
 

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Those tubes appear to be bigger than the HQ-9 for sure

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