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.