As the saying goes, practice is the only criterion for testing the truth. The best way to find out whether weapons and equipment work or not is to try them out on the battlefield. In recent years, the Pakistan Railway has tested the strong performance of the domestically produced Pterodactyl drone on the battlefield for us. The border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the Middle East is obviously different from the use of a large number of suicide drones, which makes a lot of military experts bright eyes.
In 1994, the Americans were the first to propose a new type of DAN that could not only carry out reconnaissance but also carry out precision strikes, and a number of these missiles were used in the Asia-Africa border conflict. To be clear, the patrol bomb is a new concept of missile developed by skillfully combining the technology of missiles and drones, which can carry out reconnaissance patrols for a long time on the battlefield and carry out rapid strikes after detecting targets. Although it is a concept put forward by the Americans, China is currently in the leading position in this field. Here are a few domestic patrol bombs:
1. High Definition Infrared, S570
The missile is in fact a special for the man-made patrol bomb, its launch mode for the tube launch, easy to carry and launch simple. x folding wings of the aerodynamic layout of the missile in the cruise reconnaissance on the way to more stable, smooth. Missile combat part is a 60mm armor-breaking, 8m kill radius warhead, the strike radius in about 10km. Guidance in addition to the head of a wide range of activities of the optoelectronic guide head and infrared and CCD white light dual-mode channel, detection and identification capabilities are absolutely no problem. S570 and the Israeli UVision Air company developed Hero-30 is very similar, whether it is the appearance or the launch method is very similar. However, S570 with barrel full weight of about 7kg, Hero-30 full weight of 3kg; Hero-30 can fly about 0.5h, can be 40km within the target to implement the strike.
2. Zhongtian, ZT-5 and ZT25
This is a man-portable tube-launched roving missile from Zhongtian. Like the S570, the missile is ejected by compressed gas inside the launch tube, and the motor provides power for continuous flight during cruise. zt-5 is more similar to Israel's Hero-30 in terms of performance. zt-5 plus tube weighs 5kg, flies 0.5h, has a maximum cruise of 40kg, and a maximum flight speed of 185km/h. zt-5 is different from Hero-30 in that it can be carried and launched by a drone, and its airborne speed is 185km/h. zt-5 can be carried and launched by a drone, and its airborne speed is 185km/h. zt5 can be carried and launched by a drone. Unlike the Hero-30, the ZT-5 can be carried and launched by a drone, with a maximum range of 20km by air, a strike accuracy of <0.5m, and can be launched within an altitude of 15,000m.
In addition to the man-portable ZT-5, Zhongtian also has two larger patrol bombs, the ZT-25, which uses a trailer slide for ejection and takeoff, and the ZT-60, which is a vehicle-mounted box-launched version. The ZT-25 weighs 25kg, adopts the same X-wing layout, and carries an 8kg warhead capable of reconnaissance and direct attack on targets up to 50km away, with a high imaging resolution and less than 0m accuracy. Imaging resolution is high, the strike accuracy is less than 0.5m, while the ZT-60 is a larger size and weight, launch weight reached 60kg, equipped with a 25kg high-explosive warhead, the strike radius of 100km, is considered a small cruise missile. In addition to the increased size, its aerodynamic design has also had a big change, using the upper monoplane and inverted V tail design.
3. China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, CM-501X and CM-501XA
For China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the cruise missile is considered a gadget, but it can't help that this kind of missile is of great significance in the field, so it launched these two cruise missiles. CM-501X is tilt-launched, similar to the launch of rocket artillery, while CM-501XA is vertically-launched, known as the Chinese Netfire System. Although there is only one letter difference in the names of the two missiles, the aerodynamic layout is quite different. The CM-501XA can be co-launched with the CM-501X, and the CM-501XA helps the latter to indicate, evaluate and supplement strikes. The CM-501XA can also be mounted on the Wudi 10, which is the most common foreign trade version.
There are also, for example, the CH-901 patrol missile developed by the Aerospace Science and Technology Group, the Flying Dragon 10 of the North Industries Company and the Blue Heron 30 man-portable patrol missile of the Sidde Defense Company, to name but a few. This is a good proof of the senior achievements of our country in the field of patrol bombs. Although in all areas have achieved good results, but in some areas we still need to strengthen the learning, not arrogant and not impatient.