it has no pods, need to guide the missile with hud, using kh-25ml or kh-29l will make it a steady target for any spaa. it’s main job is throwing s-25.
so, in br change, it go 9.3 in air rb
Not sure about the design detail, but the nuke carrier is a very specially made jet, it’s only job is carry the nuke, so I think they can’t be compared.
and the maximum weight, I think gaijin fabricate it, it should be able to carry more, but sadly, still no evidence.
edit: someone explained
this is a problem, but I think there will be a decompression soon, and move ground top to 12.0, maybe it would be better that time. And 10.7 grb now, usually plays with around 10.0, seldom go 11.7.
A-10a late has the best CAS loadout this br. AGM-65D can lock moving target at 12km. but it has no pod, agm-65d’s resolution and scale are awful, so it can fire about 5-6km away, and it doesn’t need to keep tracking and guiding. It’s terrible speed suggests that you should not get close to spaa’s range.
some source say it’s 100000kg, some say 8000, not sure which is true. and some article say it’s not hydrogen bomb, it’s modified from a hydrogen trigger, meaning it’s a small atom bomb
The Q5 series after Q5III/C are all modified based on Q5III/C, Q5III can install domestically produced AAMs, while the exported version of A5C is compatible with AAMs from other countries, so Q5L should also be able to produce AAMs
Add pl-5b or pl-7 for it will make it something like Pakistan Q-5C, not very interesting, but a good addition for tt. 3 Q-5 which are almost same in ARB is too boring
It is 90000 tonnes tnt equivalence, the smallest human atomic bomb of only 100 tonnes tnt equivalence is 500lb, the Hydrogen bomb must include an atomic bomb, and the hydrogen bomb with a 90000 tonne equivalence would be much more than 1 tonne. It is at least 2.5 tonnes and that is without the safety mechanism which is pretty heavy as well. Reminder this is not modern nuclear war heads, this is a last century very early H bomb.
No. Chinese nomenclature was confusing back then. 甲 was different to -I and also different to -A.
甲 was the nuclear strike variant, 乙 was the AShM variant, and Roman numerals were used to denote regular upgrades/variants until English alphabet took over decades later. Some variants were re-designated from Roman to English, others didn’t. You can read more about variants in the two Chinese books linked above.
强-5乙 was developed for the PLANAF specifically to carry torpedoes, hence the nose with a better visibility and houses a surface search radar. Five prototypes were made and at least one was photographed flying with a 5-digit serial, which only became a thing in the 1970s. The plane was first pitched in 1966 and test flown since 1971 but it only received the Type Designation in 1980 due to the slow progress of its Type 317 radar, a copy of the R-14A recovered from a crashed F-105D in Vietnam.
There were plans in 1978 to retrofit 强-5乙 with YJ-8 (鹰击-8) AShM but the heavier missile meant the plane needs to shave weight elsewhere. A minaturized Type 317 radar, known as 317甲, was then developed to reduce weight. Due to the slow progress on the radar, the AShM variant was cancelled in the late 70s and the missile went on to serve with the Type 024III missile boat.
The PLAN restarted the Q-5 AShM variant in the mid-80s after the success of YJ-8 AShM’s trials on missile boats, so they decided to have another go at it. This time it’ll carry the revised YJ-81 AShM and be directed with the JL-7 radar from J-7III. Development only went as far as flying a regular Q-5 with a mockup missile to test its handling characteristics, and the project was shelved for good because JH-7 can carry four YJ-81s, is faster, and has a longer range.