China’s PL-17 Revealed: 400km ‘AWACS-Killer’ Missile Signals Major Shift in Global Airpower Balance - Defence Security Asia
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High-resolution imagery of China’s PL-17 ultra-long-range air-to-air missile confirms a 400km engagement capability designed to target AWACS, tanker aircraft and bombers, a development analysts say could fundamentally change modern air warfare and challenge Western air superiority.
  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    4 days ago

    “The AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) is a mobile, long-range radar surveillance and control center for air defense, providing an accurate, real-time picture of the battlespace to military commanders.”

    For those that don’t want to look it up.

  • Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    4 days ago

    400km is very far, if anyone is wondering.

    For reference, Japan is like 6-700 km from China. Taiwan is 200km from China.