You sure a sea-skimming cruise missile is capable of such near-hypersonic speed? Or is it stated on the billboard? If true, that would be a remarkable achievement.
Chinese cruise and anti-ship missiles
- Thread starter crobato
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Not that hard in terminal phase, the airframe and engine only has to survive without distortion for less than 1 minute under such circumstances. 30 km at 1 km/s is just 30 s after all.
Also, do ALL YJ-12s have anti-radiation capabilities, or is there a specific variant of anti-radiation YJ-12?
Depends on the version of the missile you are talking about.
3M-54E Club-S has a claimed terminal velocity of Mach 3. Brahmos is a ramjet powered cruise missile. Maximum velocity is also claimed to be Mach 3. But might be lower at low altitude like you said.
by78
General
My apologies. I don't know how this made it past my filter. I usually translate Chinese posts and put them all in a word document for later review. However, in this instance, I copied and pasted from the word document but forgot to vet the information, probably because I was sleep deprived.
antiterror13
Brigadier
YJ-12A anti-ship missile (canisters) onboard the upgraded DDG 167 Shenzhen.
- Range: 400 to 500km,
- Cruising speed: mach 1.5
- Terminal attack speed: mach 4.5
- Cruising altitude 15m
- Terminal attack altitude 5m
- Ramjet powered
That's actually quite an upgrade for Shenzhen DDG167, now become very powerful DDG (even near 25 yrs old). Wondering whether the radar on 167 has the range to guide the maximum range of YJ-12 .. or need other DDG (i.e 052D or 055) to guide them ?