More like more reason to provide AGM-114L Longbow’s to the AH-64D’s of the US, Japan, and Israel since that’s all that’s available until the AH-64E comes in with Spike NLOS. Not to mention the Z-10ME-02’s AKD-21’s too. Not sure if the UK’s Apache is armed with AGM-114L’s or maybe Brimstone’s.
you mean BA-21? some kind of Chinese super Longbow Hellfire, or the PLA man-in-the-loop missile, or cm-502kg. it’s 3 different missiles.
add: 4 actually, there are a microwave AKD-10 in service, not sure if it’s BA-21
Yeah, the BA-21. I’ve heard the terms interchangeably. It’s supposed to be a solid missile but from my understanding it’s slow (not very slow but it’s a little slower than the Hellfire but could be wrong).
Edit: Actually I’m seeing conflicting things for the speed of the BA-21. It’s listed as 153m/s compared to the Hellfire’s 475m/s making it incredibly slow. Something doesn’t seem right.
Interesting, idk how it can be in service though (helicopter wise) because it requires a MMW RADAR unless the have a pod for the Z-10K/Z-10M that’s similar to that of the AH-1Z uses so it can use AGM-114L’s. That would be sick if they have a pod for it.
I don’t think it’s necessary, as long as you can use datalink to guide the seeker to find the target.
and I think the microwave version AKD-10 is not BA-21, it seems BA-21 is larger than BA-7(exported akd-10).
edit: it has a small pod, but not sure if it’s radar pod, microwave irradiation pod, or just a special datalink pod(this not quite possible). time changed, Chinese do have many strong micro radar, so it’s hard to judge.