Recently, the cruise missile "
,000 sword bullet " produced by the "China Research Institute" was launched outside the defense zone and was mounted on the IDF fighter for successful tests. Therefore, some media on the island pointed out that they can rely on the combination of "Ten Thousand Swords" and IDF fighter jets to actively attack military airport , thereby achieving the goal of "defending the enemy outside the country's gates".
"Ten Thousand Swords Bulletin" was developed around 2010 and was officially equipped in 2016. The reason why it is called Ten Thousand Swords Parade Missile means that its meaning of "shot ten thousand swords at the same time and invincible" is regarded as one of the iconic weapons of "decisive battles abroad". In fact, Wanjian Bullet is a long-range spreader fired in the outer space of the defense zone, or a long-range aviation sub-compartment spreader. This weapon has a moderate level and is relatively cheap, but its flight speed, range and ballistics are not as good as the long-range cruise missile , so it cannot be regarded as a real cruise missile.
"Ten Thousand Swords Bullets" defense zone's structure and technical design are similar to the American AGM-154 JSOW air defense zone's outer space launch weapon, and the European Storm Shadow air-to-ground missile . Previous reports showed that when the Wanjian bullet was developed in the early stage, it received technical support from the United States and was improved based on the US military's AGM-154 ammunition.
(500 kg aviation airborne spreader reported by CCTV last year)
"Ten Thousand Swords Bullets" can be carried and launched through IDF light fighter jets, and each aircraft can carry two. From the distinction between power systems, the "Wanjian Bullet" is divided into two configurations: powerless and powered. The powerless configuration is equivalent to a sub-compartment box with ammunition wings, which can be glided for more than ten or tens of kilometers by folding ammunition wings. If the 1:8 gliding ratio of the winged gliding bomb is based on the 1:8 gliding ratio of each meter of descent, that is, the ammunition will glide forward by 8 meters. When the IDF fighter throws the unpowered "Ten Thousand Swords bullet" at a height of 7,000 meters, the effective range can reach at least 50 kilometers.
However, in the face of modern air defense systems, a range of 50 kilometers is far from being launched "outside the defense zone". In addition, the launch height of the carrier aircraft is relatively high, and it will be shot down by surface-to-air missiles in minutes. So there was a powered "Wanjian Bullet" with a jet engine.
"Ten Thousand Swords Bulletin" If a small turbojet engine is installed, it can be used as a relatively low-end, ballistically clumsy cruise missile, flying hundreds of kilometers, and it is claimed that the range of the "Ten Thousand Swords Bulletin" can reach 220 kilometers. Moreover, in the 2019 test launch, the range of the new and improved "Ten Thousand Swords" has been mentioned to 400 kilometers. At present, the "Ten Thousand Swords Bullets" have entered standard mass production, and the preliminary estimate is that the output has reached more than 100 pieces.
PLA is also equipped with airborne spreaders. As early as the 2014 Zhuhai International Air Show, among the external mounted weapons of the Chinese JH-7 Flying Leopard attack aircraft participating, in addition to the familiar KD88 air-to-ground missile, there is also a weapon that looks very much like the European Storm Shadow Cruise Missile. This missile looks very similar to the storm shadow, and is more powerful than the early foreign trade version of the Sky Thunder 500kg aviation spreader. It should be a 980kg cruise missile.
new cruise missile features a rounded square cross-sectional body with a large internal volume, a low-resistance stealth design on the head, two folding wings provide lift, is equipped with a small turbojet engine with a range of more than 300 kilometers, and can be mounted on fighter jets such as JH-7A, J-16, and can achieve the ability to strike outside the zone. It is the "trump card" of China's next-generation air fire assault.
disclosed the specific performance of the domestically produced 500 kilogram aviation airborne spreader in CCTV's "National Defense Science and Technology" program last year. This advanced missile has a range of more than 60 kilometers. It not only has high strike accuracy, but also can load a variety of ammunition. After dispersing, its killing area can reach more than 6,000 square meters.
Our aviation spreader combat format is more flexible, can strike a variety of targets, can load up to 6 types of ammunition, and can also load high-performance terminal-sensitive bullets. For example, attack cluster tank armored vehicles can be replaced with anti-tank sub-munitions with armor-piercing capabilities of up to 200 mm, which can effectively penetrate the top armor of the tank and make the tanks fall into a collective position.When attacking large facilities such as airports, the area will be replaced and the sub-munition will be blocked, and 240 sub-munitions will be spread out, and the area after dispersion can reach 6,000 square meters.
South Korea introduced Germany's "Taurus" cruise missile, which is actually a precisely guided air-to-ground weapon with a powered long-range sub-compartment bomb spreader with a small turbojet engine.
"Ten Thousand Swords Bulletin" is a space-firing spreader in the outer zone. It usually uses a cluster bomb-type sub-compartment warhead, and 154 BUL general-purpose ammunition or six BGU-108 ammunition spreaders or one BGU general-purpose warhead are installed inside the bullet body. The ammunition is a small high-explosion-armor-breaking dual-purpose bullet that can strike targets such as armor clusters and airport runways. BGU universal warhead can also be installed, which is a single semi-armor-piercing blasting warhead, mainly used to attack solid fortresses and maritime ship targets.
"With ten thousand sword bullet" body shape is a non-circular cross-section, closer to a square. This design can bring two major benefits: on the one hand, it can have certain stealth performance, because such edges and angles can effectively reduce its radar reflection cross-sectional area and improve its penetration performance. On the other hand, it can increase the load and load more sub-bombs. The total weight of
"Ten Thousand Swords Bulletin" is about 1 ton, and the warhead weighs 450 kilograms, which is equivalent to the warhead of a Tomahawk cruise missile. The spilled area of the sub-munition is a 60x1000m long rectangle, which covers the area just enough to strike a runway in a military airport.
"Ten Thousand Swords Bullets" typical tactics to attack military airports are to dispatch 4 IDF fighters, take low-altitude navigation and low-altitude launch outside the defense zone, and throw 8 "Ten Thousand Swords Bullets" when they are 100 to 180 kilometers away from the target airport (air-ground missiles are rarely launched at maximum range, generally two-thirds of the maximum range). These 8 "Ten Thousand Swords Bullets" will attack the airport's take-off and landing runways, taxiways and aprons in a group of 2. In the ideal situation of no confrontation, a large military airport can be paralyzed at one time.
Military expert Song Zhongping said in an interview with the Global Times that the actual combat effect of the "Ten Thousand Swords Bullets" may not be as powerful as the media said. After all, the "Wanjian Bulletin" is not a cruise missile. It uses inertial guidance + GPS global positioning system assisted guidance. Since it does not have the terrain tracking ultra-low-altitude flight function of a real cruise missile, the "Wanjian Bulletin" has a relatively high cruise altitude, about 150 meters on sea and flat land. In mountains and hilly areas, the flight altitude needs to be increased to avoid hitting mountains, and the cruise altitude may be as high as hundreds of meters. In this way, it is easy to be exposed and detected by the ground air defense network. Second, it is also easy to be intercepted.
In addition, long-range spreaders such as "Ten Thousand Swords" have low ballistic performance, relatively fixed altitude during cruise flight, and their ballistics are relatively rigid, unable to maneuver greatly, and very slow. Moreover, in order to improve the maximum strike efficiency when throwing and discharging mother-child bullets, the "Ten Thousand Sword Bullet" needs to adjust its course at the end of the flight and aim at the axial flight of the airport runway. Therefore, it is easy to be intercepted by end defense systems deployed on the periphery of the airport. Finally, under the detection of high-density early warning aircraft and under high-intensity firepower, the IDF fighter can successfully carry the "Ten Thousand Swords bullet" to take off, which is a suspicious major problem.
