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Mobile anti-ballistic missile system Type Multirole combat aircraft
United States of America Place of Origin China
2008–present Service Period and Status 2006-present / In service
Designer Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute
1987 Designed Period
Program & Unit Cost Program cost:
500 million RMB allocated in 1982 (Project #10)

Unit cost:
190 million RMB (27.84 million USD in 2010)
2008–present Production Period 2002–present
Number Built 426+
First Flight 23 March 1998
Mass / Weight / Displacement Empty weight:
9,750 kg / 21,495 lb

Gross weight:
12,400 kg / 27,337 lb

Max takeoff weight:
19,277 kg / 42,499 lb
Length 16.43 m / 53 ft 11 in
Height 5.43 m / 17 ft 10 in
Crew 1 (pilot)
Wingspan 9.75 m / 32 ft 0 in
Wing Area 33 m2 / 360 sq ft
Wing Loading 381 kg/m2 / 78 lb/sq ft
Powerplant 1 × Saturn-Lyulka AL-31FN afterburning turbofan engine
or
1 × WS-10A afterburning turbofan engine
Thrust Dry thrust:
79.43 kN / 17,860 lbf

Thrust with afterburner:
125 kN / 28,000 lbf
Speed Mach 2.2
Operational Range Combat range:
1,250 km / 780 mi / 670 nmi

Range:
3,200 km / 2,000 mi / 1,700 nmi
Service Ceiling 18,000 m / 59,000 ft
Thrust-to-Weight Ratio • 1.15 (with Saturn AL-31FN3)
• 1.16 (with WS-10A)
G-load Factor +9 –3
Armament Gun:

1 × Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23

Hardpoints:

• 11 in total
• 6 × under-wing
• 2 × under-intake
• 3 × under-fuselage
with a capacity of 7,000 kg / 15,400 lb external fuel and ordnance

Rockets:

90 mm unguided rocket pods

Air-to-air missiles:

• PL-8
• PL-9
• PL-10
• PL-11
• PL-12
• PL-15

Air-to-surface missiles:

• PJ-9
• YJ-9K

Bombs:

• LT-2 Laser-guided bomb
• LS-6, GB3, GB2A, GB3A Glide bombs
• FT-1 Satellite-guided bomb
• 250 kg and 500 kg Unguided bombs

Others:

Up to 3 external fuel drop-tanks (1 × under-fuselage, 2 × under-wing) for extended range and loitering time
Avionics • Type 1473H pulse-doppler fire control radar

Externally mounted avionics pods:
• Type Hongguang-I infra-red search and track pod
• BM/KG300G self-protection jamming pod
• KZ900 electronic reconnaissance pod
• Blue Sky navigation/attack pod
• FILAT (Forward-looking Infra-red Laser Attack Targeting) pod
Turn Rate 31+ degrees per second (Instantaneous Turn Rate)
Roll Rate 300+ degrees per second (Roll Rate)
A THAAD battery consists of:
6 launcher vehicles
2 mobile tactical operations centers (TOCs)
AN/TPY-2 ground-based radar (GBR)
System Components
8 Missiles / Rockets per Launcher
8.55–10 GHz X band Radar Band & Frequency
Range:
2,900 miles / 4,700 km
Search / Detection / Coverage Range
900 kg Missile / Rocket Mass / Weight
6.17 m Missile / Rocket Length / Height
34 cm Missile / Rocket Diameter / Width
Pratt & Whitney Single-stage rocket Missile / Rocket Engine
Solid-fueled rocket Propellant
>200 km Missile / Rocket Range
150 km Missile / Rocket Altitude
Mach 8.24 / 2.8 km/s Missile / Rocket Speed and Velocity
Indium-antimonide imaging infra-red seeker head Guidance System
TEL Launch Platform
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