The Japanese ASM-3 Missile

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Just found ... a new ASM, or ultra-long range AAM ?? ???

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Deino said:
Just found ... a new ASM, or ultra-long range AAM ?? ???

Deino
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XASM-3, anti-ship missile.

More pics, inc. the Shinshin Stealth Fighter at http://bbs.cjdby.net/redirect.php?tid=541209&goto=newpost
Basic info page (Japanese only) at http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis-Mars/9578/xasm-3.html

Looks like it will have an Integrated Rocket Ramjet, and going from the last link a complex active/passive radar guidance coupled with Infrared Imaging and ECCM and IRCCM.

Seems like production programme has not been authorised, so we may just be seeing basic research on the weapon with an eye to future development.
 
JohnR said:
Just being frivolous, but doesn't the line drawing appear to have a cockpit - Kamikaze alive and well?!?!
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IIR sensor, placed there to avoid the effects of "aerodynamic heating", if I understand the Babelfish translation right.

I can never get her indoors to translate these things for me - and her a qualified JAFL teacher :(
 
Here are somev more pictures of that "beast" !

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ktbmwm3/19297712.html

Deino
 
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/japan-denies-reports-it-test-fired-xasm-3-missile
 
A B-1 with about 40-50 of these would be quite the "fleet killer"
 
If you can find enough B-1's to push a 100-150 nm missiles at a fleet.
 
https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/japan-ready-to-mass-produce-new-supersonic-anti-ship-missile/

"Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) completed development of its first domestically designed supersonic anti-ship missile, designated XASM-3, with mass production of the new weapon system slated to begin in fiscal year 2019, according to local media reports.

The XASM-3 has been specifically designed to be carried by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) F-2 multirole fighter jets, a Mitsubishi license-produced variant of Lockheed Martin’s F-16. The service currently operates around 90 Mitsubishi F-2 multirole fighter aircraft, which first entered service in 2007.

“Each aircraft will be capable of carrying up to two XASM-3 missiles,” I noted July 2017. “The new missile will replace the older domestically produced Type 80 and Type 93 air-to-ship missiles capable of reaching near supersonic speed.” Powered by a ramjet engine, the missile can reportedly reach top speeds of up to Mach 3 and has an operational range of 80 nautical miles (150 kilometers."
 
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current japanese acquisition of missiles:

in 2020 the Japanese MoD will buy missiles ASM-3 改 (Kai - improved) with a delivery date of september 2023

as well

AAM-4B - delivery in february 2024
AAM-5B - february 2023
ASM-2 - january 2022
Type 87 Chu-MAT - february 2024
Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile - may 2023
Type 11 Surface-to-Air Missile - may 2023
Type 90 Ship-to-Ship Missile - february 2024

etc

 
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