Chinese guided bomb, History, Performance & Discussion

[kleinerPanzer]

Hi friends,

It seems like there are several variants of the GB250 (GB3) guided bomb, and each version seems to have different appearances, guidance methods, etc., especially the two different versions of GB250.

“GB250”

Spoiler

https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20250920A06FUZ00

https://www.sohu.com/a/920162575_121200335

https://x.com/RickJoe_PLA/status/1855054749286248660/photo/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFkm_1ua0U

http://eng.mod.gov.cn/xb/News_213114/TopStories/16351578.html

“GB250A”

Spoiler

https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20250118A01PKY00

https://asian-defence-news.blogspot.com/2014/11/norinco-air-launched-weapons-at-display.html

https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/t/zhuhai-air-show-2020.8755/post-741728

“GB250A1”

Spoiler

Zhuhai Air Show 2020 | Page 48 | Sino Defence Forum - China Military Forum

“GB3”

Spoiler

https://news.sohu.com/20161102/n472070972.shtml


https://kknews.cc/zh-cn/military/qgppkeo.html

https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/t/zhuhai-air-show-2020.8755/post-741728

https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_10975817?commTag=true

“GB3A”

Spoiler

Zhuhai Air Show 2020 | Page 48 | Sino Defence Forum - China Military Forum

http://www.taiwan.cn/taiwan/jsxw/201612/t20161220_11658102_8.htm

There are also the old Tian Ge series TG250 and TG250-ER

Spoiler

https://aviationsmilitaires.net/v3/kb/externalload/show/375/norinco-tg

https://www.globalsecurity.org/jhtml/jframe.html#https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/images/tg250-image01.jpg|||Tian%20Ge%20250kg%20LGB

If anyone could help me understand the different variants and ensure that the in-game variants are correctly modeled, that would be greatly appreciated!

[一弹定天下]

Not a guided bomb can send it?This is China’s latest giant bomb, which should weigh no less than 5 tons.。

[thisconnect你好]

Btw does anyone have any information on dropspeeds for chinese laser bombs? They all have been struck with the mach 1.0 limit while paveway4 and hammer can be dropped supersonic

[NCC105]

a collection of some newest Chinese guided/unguided bombs.
Yunjian Group products
from the article

YL-V101 （CS/BBM4）25KG LGB

YL-V102 （CS/BBM5）10KG LGB

YL-V103 （CS/BBM6）5KG LGB

LY-V201（CS/BBC8）50KG Guided Cluster Bomb

YL-V201/YL-12（CS/BBM3）50KG Laser/GPS guided Bomb

YL-202/YL-10（CS/BBE2）50KG Aerial Fragmentation & Demolition Bomb

YL-301/YL-16（CS/BBD5）100KG Aerial Fragmentation & Demolition Bomb

YL-V301/YL-13（CS/BBM1）100KG LGB

YL-V302/YL-14（CS/BBM2）100KG GPS Guided Glide Bomb

YL-V401/YL-8（CS/BBD3）250KG LGB

LY-402/YL-3（CS/BBF1）Fuel Air Explosive Cluster Bomb

loading to Myanmar Q-5

CS/BBR1 500KG Aerial Incendiary Fire Bomb

LY-V501/YJ-6（CS/BBC5）500KG Guided Gliding Bomb

YL-V501（CS/BBD6）500KG Gliding LGB

LY-V501C Tracking Bomblet

LY-V502 500KG Guided Gliding Cluster Bomb

YL-V601/YL-5 （CS/BBD4）1000KG LGB

YJ-1（CS/BBC2）250kg Regional Blockade Aerial Bomb

YJ-2（CS/BBC4）250KG GPS Guided Bomb

YJ-7（CS/BBC7）50KG Cargo Aerial Bomb

YL-15/YJ-15A（CS/BBE3）25KG LGB

YL-18 10KG Bomb

CS/BBE1 25KG Bomb

[NCC105]

Some other Bombs
FT(Feiteng) series bomb

FT-1 GPS Guided Bomb

![image|1000x849]
info(upload://dmOX8SrkxZIYQHRhLi8YDYdXfH9.jpeg)

FT-2 500KG Gliding Bomb

http://www.cndefense.com/aws/FT-2.html

FT-12 500KG Rocket Boosted Gliding Bomb

new FT-12: IIR + GNSS
FT-12A: Laser+GNSS (with turbo engine instead of rocket)

info — info

FT-3 250kg Guided Bomb

http://www.cndefense.com/aws/FT-3.html

FT-3A 250KG IR/TV Guided Bomb

http://www.cndefense.com/aws/FT-3A.html

FT-6 250KG Gliding Bomb

info — info

FT-6A 250KG Anti-radiation Gliding Bomb

info — info

FT-7 100/150KG Gliding Bomb

info — info

FT-7A 100KG Guided Bomb SAL/IIR/TV/MMV/Anti-Radar

info

FT-9 50KG Guided Bomb

info

FT-8 50KG Modular Guided Bomb

FT-8B: GNSS/INS + IIR/SAL with data link homing terminal guide. 8KG Tandem Armor-penetrate Warhead.
FT-8C: GNSS/INS+ SAL with data link homing terminal guide. 5KG Blast-fragmentation Warhead.
FT-8D: GNSS/INS+TV or GNSS/INS+ SAL with data link homing terminal guide. 3.1KG Blast-fragmentation Warhead

info — info

FT-10 25KG Guided Bomb

FT-5

[NCC105]

TL-20 Guided Bomb
basically GBU-53/SPICE 250


CM-506KG

and the pylon for them

[141_allen]

Noticed this, ain’t that a J-8? With LS6?

[Akizyro]

Yea it’s known that J-8’s like the 8H/F can have 1 LS-6

[141_allen]

But it doesn’t have the pods to aim it with.

[genises1o]

ingame and in real life you dont need a TGP to drop a (gps) guided bomb

[thisconnect你好]

we already have planes with GPS bombs that don’t like belgian f16a

[拉里的阴茎爆炸室]

you can set a target point manually in minimap or with a bind

[141_allen]

Yeah I get that but i would consider it more convenient to use a pod.

[Sr_Albert]

The 1000kg version of the LS-6 is missing and the IR versions

[阿依土鳖的罗初]

@Sr_Albert

IR

@Sr_Albert

IR

The game has the IR version LS6, but lacks the turbojet version

[Sr_Albert]

I meant in terms of size, like one that’s 500 and one that’s 1000.

[141_allen]

I didn’t see none turbojet ones, so IDK if they even exist necessarily.

[拉里的阴茎爆炸室]

i think its some sort of export bomb, probably not the same one but here you can see Myanmar Airforce with LY-502 thermobaric bomb. Theres too many of them and pics are blurry to identify

[Miraz05]

Can any fighters carry it?

[Miraz05]

This one has fins but I think you are right. That bomb was probably a thermobaric bomb as that bomb is white like this one.