{"id":190148,"date":"2010-01-02T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/02\/spotted-china-flies-air-launched-cruise-missile-the-dew-line\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:11:00","slug":"spotted-china-flies-air-launched-cruise-missile-the-dew-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/02\/spotted-china-flies-air-launched-cruise-missile-the-dew-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted: China flies air-launched cruise missile &#8211; The DEW Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img704.imageshack.us\/img704\/7681\/cj10k2390675.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img704.imageshack.us\/img704\/7681\/cj10k2390675.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shown here on an H-6M Badger<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cnair.top81.cn\/missile1.htm\">Chinese Military Aviation blog<\/a> (bottom of page) has reported that the PLAAF has fielded a cruise missile, the CJ-10K, which is based on the ground launched CJ-10, which in turn derived some of its technology from the Russian KH-55.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be very similar in size to the Tomawhawk and the KH-55, which is no surprise, and its range is in the 1,500-2,500 km range, which makes it roughly equivalent to the Tomahawk.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the H-6M Badger is <a href=\"http:\/\/mdb.cast.ru\/mdb\/4-2009\/item3\/article1\/\">significantly improved<\/a>, significant avionics upgrades as well as modern turbofans replacing its thirsty turbojets, which give it a range in the 3,000-3,500 km range, which would allow the aircraft\/missile combination to strike Alaska without refueling, and air to air refueling, which the Chinese are now doing routinely might allow a strike against Hawaii as well.<\/p>\n<p>At about 9,000 km, a strike on the mainland US well out of range,though much of Europe would be in range.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2009\/12\/spotted-china-flies-air-launch.html\">The DEW Line<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Shown here on an H-6M Badger The Chinese Military Aviation blog (bottom of page) has reported that the PLAAF has fielded a cruise missile, the CJ-10K, which is based on the ground launched CJ-10, which in turn derived some of its technology from the Russian KH-55. It appears to be very &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}