Sunday, February 23, 2014

Chinese H-6K in MCAS Futenma strike package configuration via Chinese Military Review

Sino H-6K Badger Strategic Bomber of the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) carrying 6x CJ-10 Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missiles. 

Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation (XAC) has used light weight composite materials in H-6K Badger Strategic Bomber airframe to reduce its overall weight and it is powered by efficient and powerful Russian D-30KP-2 turbofan engines which results in increased combat radius of 3,500 kilometres.

Impressive load out of long range cruise missiles.  6 per plane and assuming a strike force of 10 airplanes and you're talking about alot of pain incoming.

And that's not a particularly large force.

Could our anti-ballistic missile system handle that many incoming "vampires"?

AEGIS could but what about our land based systems?

While putting up missile shields in Poland has merit, wouldn't it make more sense to get a few of those land based systems in Okinawa, Guam, Hawaii and maybe Australia (I won't mention Singapore because I don't think the political will is there...they're playing a great man in the middle game)?