China’s H-K6 Bomber-pictured carrying an air launched Hypersonic-Missile
Gabriel Honrada – Asia Times Nov 6, 2022
China’s Xian H-6K strategic bomber has been spotted carrying a new type of air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM), emphasizing its anti-access/area denial (A2/AD), carrier-killer and standoff strike capabilities against US bases and forces in the Pacific.
This month, The Warzone reported that H-6K, serial 11097, was seen with a pair of new underwing missiles possibly derived from the hypersonic CM-401, a truck or ship-launched anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) with land-attack capabilities that was first launched in 2018.
The report noted that the new ALBMs combine the CM-401’s formidable combat characteristics with the increased standoff range of the H-6K.
According to the state-run Global Times, the CM-401 is a new type of hypersonic ballistic missile that it claims can travel up to Mach 6 at up to 290 kilometers, can be launched into a near-space trajectory and maneuver at hypersonic speeds.
Upon reaching its target, the CM-401 can perform a terminal diving attack wherein the missile abruptly pulls up upon starting the terminal phase of its flight.
As noted by Thomas Newdick in The Warzone, the maneuver makes defense against it more difficult, allows for course adjustments and can extend its range in some cases. Newdick also notes that an H6-K air launch can significantly increase the CM-401’s range and terminal performance, with the H6-K adding 3,500 kilometers or even more with aerial refueling.
China’s new ALBM may take design cues from Russia’s Kinzhal ALBM, judging by their similar characteristics. Previously, Russia has used air-launched hypersonic weapons in the ongoing Ukraine war against static ground targets, becoming the first nation to use such weapons in conflict.
This March, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed its use of the Kinzhal against Ukrainian targets, hypersonic attacks which were also confirmed by US officials. Newdick notes that the Kinzhal also has anti-ship capabilities, though these are still unproven.
The US also deploys air-launched missiles from its strategic bombers but has a different approach to overcoming enemy air defenses. While China and Russia’s missiles rely on speed to penetrate enemy air defenses, the US relies on stealth.
B-2 bomber. Click to enlarge
This September, Asia Times reported that the US is upgrading its B2 bombers to fire the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise missile, with its small size allowing the missile to remain undetected until the last two or three kilometers of flight, which at that point is too late for interception.
China’s new ALBM, if installed aboard its H6-K bombers, could attack US military installations in Guam and Wake Island as well as major surface warships including aircraft carriers and amphibious warfare ships.
In September 2020, China’s air force released a promotional video showing a Xian H-6K bomber launching a missile at an enemy military base that appeared to simulate the Anderson Air Base at Guam.
China has been diversifying its hypersonic weapon launch platforms to include ship and road-mobile launchers as part of an asymmetric strategy against the US and its allies in the Pacific.
China’s hypersonic weapons aim to deter adversaries, namely the US, with their ability to penetrate modern air defenses without requiring air superiority, notes Ralph Bentley in a September article for Wild Blue Yonder, an online journal of the US Air University.
Asia Times reported in April on China’s successful YJ-21 hypersonic anti-ship “carrier killer” ballistic missile test from one of its Type 55 cruisers. Video footage of the test indicated that the YJ-21 is a cold-launched missile tipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), with its small control surfaces suggesting it is not a surface-to-air missile.
Combining a 1,500-kilometer range, large warhead and high velocity, the YJ-21 is designed to punch through the decks of an aircraft carrier, sinking it outright.
Significantly, the YJ-21’s range is greater than the US F-35C, the US Navy’s latest carrier-borne fighter, meaning that US carrier battlegroups will have to sail closer so the F-35Cs can reach their targets, putting the former vessels at risk of attack, notes Alex Gatopoulous for Al Jazeera.
With China’s successful test of a ship-borne hypersonic weapon, the US appears to lag in this potentially crucial strategic dimension. However, this March, Asia Times reported that the US plans to arm three of its advanced Zumwalt-class destroyers with hypersonic missiles by 2025, replacing their massive twin 155mm Advanced Gun Systems (AGS).
This change will convert the futuristic warships into blue-water strike vessels from their original role as stealthy shore bombardment platforms.
China also has a substantial land-based hypersonic weapons arsenal, which includes the DF-17 road-mobile medium-range hypersonic missile, whose existence was first confirmed in 2014, according to Missile Threat.
Missile Threat notes that the DF-17 has an estimated range of 1,800 to 2,500 kilometers and can be equipped with conventional or nuclear warheads. It also notes that the DF-17 has a high degree of accuracy and that test flights in 2015 showed it can perform extreme maneuvers and evasive actions. The same source said that, as of 2019, China was working to develop an anti-ship variant of the DF-17.
China used the DF-17 in its extensive missile firing and naval drills off Taiwan in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to the self-governing island this August, Global Times reported at the time.
JOHN AMERY traitor or patriot ?
John was born in 1912 his father was a well known British cabinet minister Leo Amery
and his mother a reformed Hungarian jewess.
John as a child would listen to what his father and mother said on the dangers of Communism
and jewish world conquest through finance, and this affected his later views.
He was a good orator and in speaking out found the jews classed him as an enemy and
as a young man he set up several small companies but was harassed by jews who
continually bankrupted him.
The Great Depression was a difficult time across the world and as
John saw the way the country was sliding to w w 2 he felt like many at the time
that as Adolf Hitler had confiscated the Rothschild German wealth and shared it
among his people, that this was the way to go in the UK.
John had secret meetings with Winston Churchill’s chief bodyguard Walter Thompson
a man who knew a lot, and John began to espouse the views of National Socialism.
He travelled across Europe meeting politicians and giving speeches and in September 1942
went to Berlin john was a senior figure in the formation of a German brigade of Englishmen all
opposed to the march of Bolshevism.
The Englishmen were called the League of St George later changed to the English Free Corps
and in 1945 while travelling to Italy to give more talks was arrested by Captain Allan Wicker
who later became a TV broadcaster.
Amery was sent to london for trial on 8 counts of High Treason, it was said in court that John was a spanish citizen so could not commit treason against the UK, he said he was always an anti communist never a nazi, and wanted England to stay out of another war but this was brushed aside, the authorities wanted it over quickly and after a trial lasting just 8 minutes, John Amery pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death.
Amery was hanged in Wandworth prison on December 19 by Executioner Albert Pierrepoint
who in his biography described John Amery as “the bravest man i ever hanged” and he is buried in the prison cemetery, as he was being led to the scaffold he turned to the executioner and said
” i always wanted to meet you mr pierrepoint, though not of course under these circumstances”
In 1968 his brother Julian had John’s remains exhumed and cremated and his ashes scattered in France
An Epitaph by his father appears in ” The Empire at Bay” the Leo Amery diaries
At end of wayward days he found a cause –
‘Twas not his Country’s – Only time can tell
If that defiance of our ancient laws
Was treason or foreknowledge. He sleeps well.
and the JASSM-ER surely will have
a taktical nuke of beercan size .
Look at the upright pentagram on the back of the plane. That’s the symbol of Lucifer’s fallen angels right side up and the stripes to each side are the wings. He got his wings back and He is back on top. When the pentagram is inverted, that’s Lucifer and his fallen angels being tossed out of Heaven; the down-side is that they have been breeding like flies ever since and now they rule the world.
China is Lucifer’s the top dog now, Russia will hide behind her, America will continue to be turned into a decaying multicultural armpit. Forget about all this talk about hypersonic satellite guided ‘nuclear’ tipped carrier busting weaponry. When you see that star it means that country and its armed forces are Israel’s bitch. Let the imbeciles go on about fake nuclear weapons supposedly invented by banking sector weirdos like Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller. Let them leave comments telling Putin the Puppet to bomb Tel Aviv or London’s financial sector. All you have to do is take one look at the face of Gabriel Honrada or Thomas Newdick. Newdick Newdick Newdick, there I said it. The reason he gave himself the moniker Newdick is to distract you from looking at him and saying yet again: “Yep, that’s a Jew.” As POTUS in dotage would say, “C’mon man don’t be a Notsee, all my children married Jews. And get vaccinated!” His bloated predecessor, Orange man comb-over say’s: “Ya gotta love Jews. All my grandchildren are Jews. Ya gotta take the vaccine, I’m the father of the vaccine.” Putin’s daughter married a Lubavitcher and pushed the Jew Jab. But the imbeciles will say it was a ‘Russian made’ vaccine. Yep.
Let’s look at the mug of ‘Thomas Newdick’, isn’t he a beaut: https://www.thedrive.com/content/2021/01/thomas_newdick_hs.jpg?auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=120
If that wasn’t enough to send you to the liquor cabinet, here is something that dropped off a banana boat, Gabriel Honrada:
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“Our studies indicate that hypersonic weapons may have advantages in certain scenarios, but by no means do they constitute a revolution. Many of the claims about them are exaggerated or simply false. And yet the widespread perception that hypersonic weapons are a game-changer has increased tensions among the U.S., Russia and China, driving a new arms race and escalating the chances of conflict.”
The Physics and Hype of Hypersonic Weapons
C’mon man! Pay no attention the inconvenient FACT the U.S. was engineering, constructing and flying MANNED hypersonic aircraft in the 1960s.
P.S. Ever heard of lasers. The Pentagram has.
(nothing up their sleeve)
“John as a child would listen to what his father and mother said on the dangers of Communism
and jewish world conquest through finance”
And what, pray tell, is the “right way” master?
Interesting how Antfia Russia also has the Bolshevik Red Star on their jets too, just like Communist China. Weird why TTS & all these supposed ‘white patriot’ types from the UK/USA etc are supporting these two Commie States..
Those batwing bombers look good. The cylindrical body of conventional aircraft are of course streamlined and aerodynamic but they do not offer lift, so their wings have to be much larger to provide the extra lift. The whole airframe of those batwings or flying wings provide lift, meaning the weight saving for having no cylindrical body means they can carry more bombs, or more fuel for greater ranges, or a combination of the two. The last estimate for their development and costs of construction means each aircraft cost over $2 billion. I wonder how many Americans have to go poor, hungry and cold to pay for each one?
John Amery’s last words are the best famous last words I’ve ever read about. Julius Streicher’s Purimfest 1946 comes as a close second. Amazing both happened the same year.
@ NOSMO KING
JOHN AMERY; EZRA POUND;
WILLIAM JOYCE (lord haw haw)
are heros taking their cross against
evil powers in their time .
@ YODA
dont you know that ?
the right way is against political
falsehood + insidiousness !
You don’t ‘just happen to see’ something like this. This was a subtle warning. Unfortunately, the maniacs that rule the West are not listening.