Double-pulse high-projectile ballistic anti-tank missile

Dual-pulse high-throw ballistic anti-tank missiles

With the increase in air defense firepower of armies of various countries, the survivability of equipped helicopters is increasingly challenged. For this reason, countries are actively developing missiles with longer ranges. long-range anti-tank missiles to avoid enemy anti-air fire. For example, China and Russia have both developed anti-tank missiles with a range of more than 20 kilometers. But this brings another problem. As the range and weight of missiles increase, the amount of missiles carried by helicopters also decreases.

So is there any way to increase the range of the anti-tank missile while keeping its weight low to maintain the impact firepower of the launch platform? Dual-pulse high-projectile ballistic anti-tank missiles are one direction.

From a practical point of view, air-to-air missiles are pathfinders that use dual-pulse rocket engine technology and high-throw ballistics, and have achieved outstanding results: PL15 air-to-air missiles use dual-pulse rocket engines and high-throw ballistics. After ballistics, its effective range reaches 145 kilometers! With the same weight as the PL12, the launch distance is doubled while still maintaining the terminal hunting capability against highly mobile targets. In addition, the US military's Standard 6 missile has also increased its range to 400 kilometers due to its high-throw trajectory.

The experience of air-to-air missiles using dual-pulse engines and high-throw ballistics can also be transplanted to anti-tank missiles! Taking the ADK10 equipped with Wuzhi-10 as an example, its various data are basically consistent with the American Hellfire anti-tank missile: the range is about 8 kilometers and the weight is about 40 kilograms. If a dual-pulse rocket engine and high-ejection ballistics are used, the range will be increased to 16-20 kilometers, and the weight will still be less than 50 kilograms; if it is a heavy missile with a range of 20 kilometers and a weight of 60 kilograms, double-pulse high-ejection ballistics will be used instead. Ballistic, its range will reach 30-40 kilometers. Although the carrier aircraft cannot directly use lasers to designate targets at such a long distance, anti-tank missiles equipped with millimeter-wave automatic radar seekers/infrared imaging seekers can attack independently.

Of course, considering that purely high-projectile ballistics can easily be located by enemy gun position radars, and missile-borne platforms such as hovering helicopters and launch vehicles can easily pose a threat, the missile must be launched before it enters the high-projectile trajectory. It is possible to add an "irregular level flight section", that is, the missile flies levelly for 200-500 meters and then pulls up to enter the automatic climbing section. In this way, even if the enemy's gun position radar determines the trajectory, it cannot determine the missile's accurate launch direction and cannot execute it. Counterattack artillery fire.

If our army is equipped with this new type of dual-pulse high-throw anti-tank missile, it may have many advantages.

First, the fire impact range of the helicopter is greatly increased. Helicopters can launch long-distance attacks 30-40 kilometers away from the enemy, and even the enemy's tightly protected targets cannot escape the attack. At the same time, our helicopters can have better survival capabilities.

Second, create a balance between impact interval and firepower density. Regarding high-throwing dual-pulse anti-tank missiles with a range of 20-40 kilometers, armed helicopters can also carry about 8 of them. Regarding missiles with a range of 8-10 kilometers, Wuzhi-10 can carry 16-24 missiles.

Third, give traditional transport helicopters strong impact capabilities. With its powerful plug-in capability, the transport helicopter can carry a larger number of long-range dual-pulse high-throw anti-tank missiles. At this time, the transport helicopter can hide in a safe rear and launch the missiles under the guidance of helicopters and drones equipped in the front.

Fourth, it allows ground vehicles and individual soldiers to have farther anti-tank impact capabilities.

Fifth, it can simulate the launch of rocket launchers to induce the enemy to start a war. The trajectory of the dual-pulse high-throw anti-tank missile is very similar to the trajectory of the rocket launcher. It is easy for the enemy's artillery position radar to determine that our rocket launcher was launched, and then allowed the enemy's artillery fire to counterattack. But in fact, this launch point is unreal. The enemy's artillery counterattack cannot hit the target. It can only reveal its position and lead to a stronger impact.

To sum up, once the dual-pulse high-throw anti-tank missile enters service, it will make the Wu-10 and other aircraft even more powerful, greatly improve the combat strength of our army, and will allow our army to take the lead in this field of equipment. At the forefront of the United States and Russia. Of course, this is just my personal opinion now, and the specific details still need to be perfected.