Could be this SWFCS system exhibited at CATIC's booth during expos.
This patent by CATIC & Shenyang has a similar description.
PLAAF Munitions
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This patent by CATIC & Shenyang has a similar description.
By size/footprint you mean the overall size not the missile body right? IIRC, PL-16 is PL-15 with smaller fins.
No one has seen the PL-16 yet but we definitely know that it isn't a PL-15 with smaller fins. It likely have a lifting body with small tailfins only.
By size/footprint, I mean every aspect of the missile, including missile fuselage, fins etc.
We don't know what the PL-16 will be relative to PL-15 -- however considering the PL-15 comes in a folding fin variant (same missile fuselage as regular PL-15, but with folding fins), then I would be surprised if PL-16 directly reused the PL-15 missile fuselage but with just smaller fins, though such a possibility of course cannot be ruled out.
It is thus most correct to say "smaller footprint" than the standard PL-15 (non-folding fin variant) as all we definitively know about PL-16 is that J-20 and J-35 family should both respectively be able to carry six PL-16s internally versus four standard PL-15s.
Responding here as it's good form to not get too off topic in a flagship thread like the Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36) thread.
Can you please tell us more about the ARMs derived from the PL-10 and PL-15 AAMs?
Guessing the same form factors, but bigger warheads, and seekers tailored to SEAD/DEAD missions?
Is the PL-15 derived ARM compatible with the J-20? If so, that may imply how the J-35 could be employed, assuming its IWB is indeed as long as the J-20's . . .
Can you please tell us more about the ARMs derived from the PL-10 and PL-15 AAMs?
Guessing the same form factors, but bigger warheads, and seekers tailored to SEAD/DEAD missions?
Is the PL-15 derived ARM compatible with the J-20? If so, that may imply how the J-35 could be employed, assuming its IWB is indeed as long as the J-20's . . .
I don't think so, I believe PL-15 should be capable of anti-radiation stock. AESA seeker on the PL-15 and other modern radar guided missiles should have a passive mode to home in on radiation. The warhead although somewhat small should be able to disable and destroy delicate radar equipment.
The name is ld8 modified from pl10 and ld8a modified from pl15. Not very hard to find on the internet. Increased warhead size is unnecessary as radar apertures are just as fragile as aircraft and impossible to be armored.
I recall reading about the LD-10 and LD-30 at some point or another, and had assumed them to be export oriented weapons systems, akin to the SD-10, given the designations.
So are the relevant PLAAF designations LD-8/A or something else?
So does an ARM derivative of the PL-15 actually exist, or is it just a marketing gimmick for highlighting the PL-15's ability to accomplish anti-radiation missions as well as dedicated, clean sheet ARM designs?