Recently, photos of China's H-6N carrying a new hypersonic missile appeared on the Internet, and the website of the American media "Defense Blog" also made a public report. This also means that China already has at least three hypersonic missiles. It is the country with the largest number of hypersonic missiles in the world.
At this point in time, the photos of China's new high-tech bomb broke out, it can be said that the meaning of knocking the US military is very obvious, you know, and just a few days ago, the US military dispatched the most advanced shipborne air defense missile, which is still unable to intercept Iran's Fatah 2 hypersonic missile. On the previous Internet, many netizens also swore that the YJ-21 needs the cooperation of the reconnaissance system, and it is still a weapon that can be intercepted by standard 6 missiles, with a range of 1000 km and the cutting-edge air-launched anti-ship missile (refer to LRASM) at the same level. But reality has given a clear answer, that is, under the strong penetration capability brought by hypersonic missiles, the US military does not have any ability to intercept.
The name of the new hypersonic missile has not yet been revealed, but it should be an air-launched version of the YJ-21. Among them, the H-6N is a new type of bomber that the mainland continues to tap potential and develop and improve on the basis of the H-6K. From the point of view of appearance, the biggest change of the H-6N compared with the H-6K is the installation of a non-retractable large fuel receiving pipe above the right side of the nose, which shows that the H-6N has the ability to use the hose refueling system common to the Chinese Air Force for in-flight refueling.
After the H-6N is equipped with a fuel receiving pipe, it can have a maximum combat radius of more than 5,000 kilometers after two refueling in the air, and has the ability to enter the depths of the Pacific Ocean, hunt down US ships, and even reach the launch position of the main US bomber outpost in Guam. It can be said that the H-6N, which has the capability of refueling in the air, will greatly enhance China's air-based strategic deterrence and deterrence range.
The YJ-21 air-launched version, equipped with a large biconical warhead and four small wings in the tail, has the typical characteristics of ballistic missiles, and the Strategic Support Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has disclosed the parameters of the "YJ-21" missile in the media, and the "YJ-21" is China's first hypersonic anti-ship missile. "YJ-21" is about 9 meters long, about 0.85 meters in diameter, has a range of 1000~1500 kilometers, the weight of the warhead reaches 800~1000 kg, and the whole flight speed is Mach 6, and the speed of "YJ-21" in the terminal attack stage can reach an astonishing Mach 10 - equivalent to 10 times the speed of sound. If the speed at which sound travels through the air is 340 meters per second, the speed of 10 times the speed of sound, that is, the speed of the "YJ-21" when it finally smashes into the enemy, can reach 3,400 meters per second, and such a terminal speed cannot be intercepted by any anti-missile weapon system at this stage. This terrifying speed can inflict a fatal blow on the enemy ship even if it is smashed directly without exploding.
And we must know that the range of the air-launched type is longer than that of the carrier-based type, and the air-launched type can borrow the muzzle velocity of the carrier aircraft, and only requires very little energy to reach the cruising speed, and most of the fuel is used for cruising, and the range is naturally long; a considerable part of the energy of the ship-launched type is used to accelerate from zero speed to cruising speed, and the fuel used for cruising is relatively less, and the range is shorter, which also means that the range of the YJ-21 air-launched type is at least 2,000 kilometers.
The H-6N carries several advantages of hypersonic missiles: First, rapid mobile deployment. Whichever airfield the H-6N is deployed, the deterrent power of hypersonic missiles will be extended to which direction, and this mobile deployment speed is incomparable to that of land-based ballistic missiles. Second, the cost of long-range firepower strikes has been greatly reduced. Compared with the land-based version of the large ballistic missile, the air-launched version of the ballistic missile is launched at high altitude by the bomber platform, which determines that its size will not be particularly large, and the procurement cost is much cheaper than that of land-based medium-range missiles. Third, as mentioned earlier, carrying hypersonic missiles, the H-6K can directly destroy the U.S. military's Guam base and even hit the U.S. military's Hawaii base with firepower [3000 km (H-6N combat radius) + 2000 km (air refueling belt extension) + 2000 km (missile air-launch range) or more]
The U.S. media admits that the missile carrying a conventional warhead can be used to remotely attack aircraft carriers and high-value targets on the ground, and it not only has a longer range when launched from the air, but also has better flexibility of use, and the H-6N has the ability to hit high-value targets outside the second island chain. The U.S. can be said to be extremely concerned about the H-6N and the air-launched ballistic missiles it carries — after all, this is one of the capabilities that the U.S. military has so far not possessed.
Iran's attack on Israel can be said to have made the world see the real combat power of the PLA, you know, the US Army + Israel + the British Army, the Iron Dome + David Slingling + Arrow 3, AN / TPY-2 X-band anti-missile radar + Patriot + THAAD + Standard 3.
The so-called world's strongest anti-missile system was still pierced by Iran's medium-range missiles and hypersonic missiles, and Iran also told the United States in advance that it would attack Israel.
In other words, the US military faced an open-book test, but it still failed to pass, and the interception rate was only about 30%. Of course, Iran's tactics are good, drones consume a wave, and then take the eliminated conventional ballistic missiles consume a wave, and medium-range missiles and hypersonic missiles are basically not intercepted.
As for drones, China has the largest number and variety of drones in the world. In addition, we must know that Iran's missiles are basically imitations of the PLA, and the Fatah series missiles have a pure Hongqi 2 bloodline.
Then let's think about it, if the US military is faced with China's million drones, and China's more advanced hypersonic missiles, what will be the result. There is no doubt that the US military's western Pacific bases and US aircraft carrier strike groups will be destroyed, you know, the speed of the aircraft carrier strike group does not exceed 50 kilometers per hour, and there is no way to escape the lock of Chinese radar in the western Pacific.
Now we can say with certainty that in the western Pacific, the US military is no longer an opponent of the PLA. The photos of China's H-6N carrying hypersonic missiles are displayed on the Internet, which is also a warning to the US military not to repeatedly provoke incidents in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, otherwise once the PLA counterattacks, it will only be the US military itself that will suffer in the end.