Foreigners are already confused: vertical launch, mid-air turn, arbitrary orbital change, supersonic speed, hundreds of kilometers range, large-angle attack, high hit accuracy, high explosion heavy warhead, this is clearly the ballistic missile , OK? But we just call it " rocket launcher ".
This is a heavy weapon. At this Zhuhai Air Show, the WL-600L multi-purpose weapon system developed by the Seventh Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation seemed a bit tall and outstanding. This one looks very much like the equipment of the Hongqi-9 long-range surface-to-air missile. Since its debut, all parties have always believed that the WS-600L should be a short-range tactical ground-to-ground ballistic missile, rather than a long-range rocket launcher system. However, in the eyes of the official report and Seventh Aerospace Academy, it is still classified as the "Guardian" long-range rocket launcher family sequence.
WS-600L was first exhibited at the 2018 Zhuhai Air Show. It was immediately anchored by the outside world as a short-range tactical missile system, and it was not linked to the so-called long-range rocket launcher system at all. For example, most publications call it the WS-600L ballistic missile system.
When the 13th Zhuhai Air Show in 2021, in order to avoid many misunderstandings, the Seventh Academy of Space simply gave it the name of multi-purpose weapon system, but it still inevitably aroused heated discussion and speculation from foreign military observers, who believed that the Seventh Academy of Space was "talking lies with open eyes."
Even at this Zhuhai Air Show, the Seventh Aerospace Academy was still very nervous, insisting on treating the WS-600L as a member of the "Guardian" series of long-range rocket launchers, defined as a multi-purpose weapon system. As an important long-range suppression weapon of the Army, it can play an important role in the use of the Army's ground combat.
From the appearance, the WS-600L multi-purpose weapon system uses an 8×8 universal off-road chassis, which is very similar to the Hongqi-9 long-range air defense missile system chassis, and should be a product of Tai'an Company. The WS-600L adopts a quad-mounted launcher configuration, the advantage is that the has a large load of , sufficient firepower, and omnidirectional vertical launch. According to the information disclosed in the model and promotional video of the air show in recent years, the appearance is composed of a pointed conical head and a cylindrical bullet body. The rear part of the bullet body is equipped with four trapezoidal wings and four tail wings. In addition, there are four small gas rudders at the tail. It can be seen that the bullet has put a lot of effort into aerodynamic control.
Public information shows that the long-range rocket equipped with WS-600L has a total length of 8.5 meters, a diameter of 0.6 meters, and a total weight of 3.4 tons. Using solid fuel as the propellant of , the maximum range is limited to 299 kilometers due to the Missile Technology Agreement, and the minimum range is 80 kilometers. If weapons of this size fly completely at standard ballistics, the range may be as long as 400 to 500 kilometers.
warhead payload reaches 490 kg, and can carry multiple warheads including explosion-killing, penetrating and blasting, semi-armor-piercing and conductive fibers. Among them, the conductive fiber warhead has the same function as the aviation graphite bomb, which will cause a fatal blow to enemy power plants, substations and distribution lines. It can be called the Chinese version of the "power switch".
It is reported that this type of rocket is equipped with a multi-repetitive guidance system, with INS inertia + BOS (Beidou) satellite combination navigation + optical infrared thermal imaging terminal guidance. The end circle calculation deviation CEP will be controlled within 10 meters, and has extremely excellent strike accuracy.
It is not difficult to see that the Chinese long-range rocket launcher system represented by the WS-600L multi-purpose weapon system is no less than the US-made M142 "Hymas" high-mobile rocket launcher system, and has long achieved catching up or even leading.
In addition, it should be noted that the above equipment is only used for foreign trade exports, which means that Chinese military-industrial enterprises and scientific research institutes have many unseen bottom products and high-tech products that have not yet appeared. In short, we have a variety of choices to create an absolute advantage over the US-made M142 "Hymas" high-mobility rocket launcher system, which verifies a sentence, namely, "The West does not brighten the East"!
At present, China is fortunate to be at the top ranks in the competition for long-range precision-guided rocket launchers/short-range ground-to-ground ballistic missiles such as China, the United States and Russia.It is no exaggeration to say that the top three in the world's long-range rocket launchers are all made in China.
Seeing that China's long-range rocket can launch a hole attack 299 kilometers away, Ying Jiang is probably going to be angry:
Rabbit, do you still say this is not a missile?
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