Now that it’s been announced, what do we know about the pl-12a?
Nothing, other than it’s better than Pl12. Next to nothing anyways, we can’t even distinguish 12A and 12AE RN.
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yep, lets hope its the pl12 ae
Come to think of it, is there even an official photo of the PL-12A? I cannot find anything about it aside from dubious English sources or just things not sourced at all. Allegedly it only has a better seeker, but that comes from one of those said sources.
Perhaps it might be the 12AE but designated 12A (in the blog, not irl) because the “E” could stand for export like on the PL-15E and PL-10E for example. This is just an assumption on my end however.
It’s kinda like saying there is a HQ-16F because the HQ-16FE exists, because I don’t think there is official proof of it too (at least from what I can find)
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Is the first image trying to say its a 12A? Cuz iirc that same image is used as proof that the 12AE uses the PL-15 booster, which I do know it has
Isn’t it also allegedly single stage too now?
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There is this, but iirc this is most likely just a display mislabel. It’s the only thing I could find remotely about the PL-12A
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don’t know, this is just a guess. the image just shows same length of rocket part. and suggests similar electronic/warhead cabins