In the version that added missile inertia, the SACLOS-guided missiles of many vehicles lost their ability to fight against infrared jammers, but these have been gradually repaired. Today I discovered during the test that the interference problem of HJ73E has not been fixed. As a missile guided by SACLOS, HJ73E should be able to resist infrared interference systems. I hope this vulnerability can be repaired as soon as possible. Plus a picture from warthunder wiki.
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Forgot to explain a few points. HJ-73E is a model upgraded by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army for anti-interference capabilities after the 21st century. The E model does not even have wires and uses wireless command control.
“Many subsequent improvements were made to the Red Arrow 73, all to improve combat effectiveness.
The Hongjian 73A draws on the technology of the second-generation anti-tank missile Hongjian 8, changes manual control to semi-automatic infrared guidance, and is equipped with a specially developed TV goniometer and digital ground control box. As long as the operator does not need to manually control the missile flight, he can hit the target by simply pointing the aiming device at the enemy tank, which greatly improves the attack accuracy.
The Red Arrow 73B missile uses a tandem warhead to deal with the later emergence of reactive armor. The power of the missile has been greatly improved, and the static armor-piercing capability has been increased to 800 mm.
The main performance of the Red Arrow 73C is close to that of the Red Arrow 73B, but there are three improvements: the rocket engine, the follower launcher and the anti-jamming capability.
Using a new generation of rocket engine, the rocket flight time is reduced, the attack efficiency is improved, and the shooter is relatively safer.
The A and B models of the Red Arrow 73 both use backward infrared angle measurement and have poor anti-interference capabilities. During the test in Pakistan, the local military did not use an infrared jammer at all, but only set up some battlefield interference conditions, such as fire and heavy smoke to render the missile ineffective.”“The Red Arrow 73C uses CCD TV angle measurement and uses anti-interference technologies such as spectrum recognition, background cancellation and adaptive gate, which greatly improves battlefield survivability.
Use the follow-up launcher to allow the shooter to maintain a certain distance from the missile using the sight. This greatly reduces the probability of casualties from enemy artillery counterattacks, and more importantly, it can be used on various vehicle-mounted launch platforms.
Another addition is the addition of an infrared thermal imager, which greatly improves night combat capabilities, but this is not standard equipment. Many Red Arrow 73Cs do not have night combat capabilities.”
“The Red Arrow 73D is a product of further optimizing the aerodynamic design of the warhead and missile based on the C-type. Canards are added to the head to improve flight stability.
The convenience of infantry use, night fighting capabilities and anti-interference capabilities have been greatly enhanced. The Red Arrow 73D is also currently the main equipment of the People’s Liberation Army, and previous models are rarely used.”
“In addition, there are also models such as Hongjian-73E, Hongjian-73E1 and Hongjian-73F, which have made various improvements. For example, Hongjian-73E uses wireless command transmission, and there are no wires.”
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