203mm caliber, 3.9m length, and 200kg weight correspond to PL-12 or SD-10A, while SD-10 weighs 180kg with 3.8m length, and PL-12A weighs 214kg.
Is it known to be shorter? Or is this unofficial sources.
Data sourced from early airshow display boards and an interview with SD-10 deputy chief designer Liang Xiaogeng: SD-10 measures 3.85m in length, 0.203m in diameter, 0.674m wingspan, with total weight of 180kg. Operational altitude 0-25km, maximum speed Mach 4 (achieving 38G maximum usable overload at Mach 4/6,000m altitude). At 10km altitude with 1.2 Mach head-on engagement, maximum launch distance reaches 70km.
Do u have the source for that?
Also do u have where this source comes from? The graph as in.
I can only cite the source: “Authoritative Report on China’s Most Advanced Active Radar Air-to-Air Missile - Interview with SD-10 Deputy Chief Designer Liang Xiaogeng” [J]. Ordnance Industry Science Technology, 2004(5):17-23.
However, I regret that I currently cannot provide screenshots of the original article.
edit：I’ve located the original article, though the image clarity might be suboptimal.
How about the chart of the stats?
Do u have the original article?
by Fan Huitao, the second chief designer of the PL-12.
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We could give it a try
But I do think we need more sources
With AIM-120C-5 being potentially considered for addition to Eurofighter and now already added to F-15E, we should push for it.
it’s time to restart the old topic about changing current PL-12 to SD-10 and remake current PL-12.
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Yes, we should do it now
post what we have above as well,
too busy these days.
Then maybe I can try when I have the time
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Please do
I’m going to go ahead and draft one just to see what sources we’ve got.
The interview mentions some information about SD-10A, such as its 100km range capability.
Also it mentions that the delta-V of SD-10 (not SD-10A) is over mach 3 (1020m/s).
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Thanks for the post. Other than the SD-10 parameters, I also found the “generic target” parameters and the explanation of what 0km means interesting.
Is the Aspide 1A missile the only Fox 1 missile that can be directed to a jamming zone? I mainly play the Chinese and a lot the J8B in sim I noticed for a very long time that the Aspide 1A missile manages to hit the targets even when the radar of the J8B was in distress because of the chaff, I tested other missiles of the AIM 7 family (except the P version) and having tested them all I find that the Aspide 1A is the best AIM 7 of the game, it may not have the range of the AIM 7M but in a situation where the enemy plane chaffs enormously with evasive maneuvers I find that the Aspide 1A has more chance of hitting
while doing research I learned that the Aspide 1A was probably equipped with a “HOJ” (home-on-jam) and one of the only other missiles identified with a HOJ in the sparrow family is the AIM 7M and P, difficult at my level to make real comparisons or to find all the information I turned to an AI which confirmed to me that the Aspide 1A was technologically more advanced than the latest version of the AIM 7 and which also confirms my feeling
but with all the parts that I was able to do I notice that the Aspide 1A is the only Sparrow that will cross chaff to hit its target if the missile is close enough
(I would like to point out that the Aspide 1A can guide itself alone in the terminal approach phase without radar detection from the firing aircraft and in a chaff environment.)
I’m writing a suggestion post on PL-12A(E) and found this from last year’s airshow. Pretty much confirmed that PL-12A is in PLAAF service as well.
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