Chinese air to ground weapons (missiles, PGMs, etc)

Blitzo

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Perhaps different warheads? 1 a penetrator, 1 GP?

You don't need to have two entirely different yet similar weapons just for different warheads -- such weapons are generally designed to be able to accommodate different warhead types in the same airframe body.


There are a few reasons why they might buy both, but we can only speculate and the answers are probably not that interesting.
So the best thing to do is probably just to go "that's kind of weird" and move on imo, not worth spending the brainpower or thread space to speculate.
 

Jingle Bells

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Both are unpowered and both seem like they're in the same weight category.

As we discussed, I'm not sure why they have procured both.

It might be a typo. It could have meant GB6A instead of GB6. This way, it would be two 500kg class dispenser: one powered, the other one unpowered.
 

Blitzo

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It might be a typo. It could have meant GB6A instead of GB6. This way, it would be two 500kg class dispenser: one powered, the other one unpowered.

It's GB6 -- look at the rear of that munition. It's grey, uncovered. It's not the powered version. The geometry and control surface of it is consistent with the unpowered GB6 as well, rather than the GB6A
 

Jingle Bells

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It's GB6 -- look at the rear of that munition. It's grey, uncovered. It's not the powered version. The geometry and control surface of it is consistent with the unpowered GB6 as well, rather than the GB6A
Yepp, normally there should be a red cover for the rear end, if it really is GB6A.
But the picture is pretty grainy, so it could be a grey glitch. I guess we just don't know.
 

Blitzo

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Just for clarification. While the GB6 is unpowered, the GB6A is powered, right?

Yes.

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@huitong

regarding your entry for YJ-1000, you wrote "YJ1000 can be carried by JH-7A2 and J-16. It appears similar to American GBU-28 but smaller and lighter"

As a 1 ton class bunker buster LGB, YJ-1000 is probably most similar to GBU-24, which is also a 1 ton bunker buster LGB.
I'm not sure why it would be compared with GBU-28, given it weighs 2 tons -- when GBU-24 exists as a peer
 

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Any chance we have a possible estimation of GB6A's range? Is it somewhat similar to the Storm Shadow, or much shorter range, like a typical air to surface missile (no more than 200km range)?

I don't recall if we were given numbers for it.

It doesn't help that there has been multiple externally different iterations of the GB6A.
 
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