According to Jane’s, the new WS-9 engines are at 12,000kg max thrust. Even with the Spey design, it would not be hard to squeeze out 12,000kg thrust. The Spey are making 9,000-10,000kg thrust with a 5 to 1 TWR, so it’s pretty under utilized. There are plans by the British to boost the power of the Spey before.

The new radar is the LETRI JL-10A, replacing the Type 232H of the original JH-7. We’ve seen pictures of this posted in this forum. It’s a mechanical slotted planar array around 700 to 800mm in diameter. According to some data I’ve seen on Chinese forums, it can track 15 targets and engage 6 of them. The range is about 80km lock on but it may be higher. It can support the PL-12, which LETRI also makes the seeker for. This radar was said to have been a candidate for the J-10 as well. I guess the radar used on the J-10 now (NRIET KLJ-3) probably outperforms this, but lacks the antiship capability the JL-10A has, which is why this JH-7A uses this radar. The rough equivalent to the JL-10A on the Russian side would be the Phazotron Zhemchug/Zhuk-M.

Wait isn’t BRIET KLJ-3 also known as Type 1473 or something like that?

Is the JL-10A a multirole radar?

Anyways the WS-9 is a turbojet, what significant differences will make it in the quality of this plane?

As for exporting this machine, it would be best if it came as a total package, ie in Chinese weapons. Ie SAAMs and BVRAAMs, LGBs, Cruise Missiles, other ASMs, ARMs and other goodies, so far I don’t think China has any Cruise Missiles or ARMs of their own, as they use Kh-59M and Kh-31P for their needs.

I still don’t think I would want this machine over something like multirole J-10, despite smaller range, single seat(higher workload) and other things the J-10 will be much more cost-effective.

Yes, but I still think it would be more effective raining on an airfield with 3-4 BMs than sending whole bunch of aircraft, pilots in them and risking everything, not only that but first you have to go through enemey’s air defenses such as SAMs and other fighters.

I have a few questions
1)What is the big difference between Shahab-3 and Shahab-3B
2)What type of missiles does China have pointed at Taiwan?
3)What do you guys think a missile like the Shahab-3 would cost like/just MISSILE and excluding the launcher and other goodies?

Can it at least disable the runaway or anything? Those hardened shelters, how much does it reallly take to take those out?

Will a rain of lets say 2-3 of those ballistic missiles be enough to take it out?

Also in wartime, those airfields can be really busy, if they are crowded with aircraft then that can really be an advantage.

So is it worth really buying those Shahab-3B’s in any case to use them against high value targets such as airfields and etc? Can they also be loaded with different sorts of warheads?

The Brahmos Mobile Launcher is able to fire the Missile at ships, I understand it would be placed somewhere by the coast, can someone please describe me how would this actually work and how would this be used for Coastal Defence.

Now, another thing, regarding the Yakhont-M and Brahmos, I understand they can also be used to engage ground targets, can they be used to destroy airfields and many other targets?