Chinese Missile Systems : Discussions

Blake Herzinger, who has written a book on China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles, estimates that a long range engagement may only take 25 minutes from launch to impact. In this time a carrier, even at 30 knots, could cover less than 13 nautical miles.
probably, but it will take some more minutes (or dozen of minutes) between the last and precise detection of the carrier and the fire order. Add that the chinese army is probably as the russian one (communism...) not very decentralisated, so it takes some more minutes to reach the boss and have its agreement to fire.

So the carrier may be far theses 13 nautical miles. maybe 20? maybe 30 ?

How agile may be such a classical warhead fired from an IRBM? able to change of trajectory more than 13 miles? (according that the real place of the carrier is to be found by the embarked seeker, and in this case how effective and at what altitude and speed may a RF seeker be efficient on such a warhead? ).
 

Chinese team claims ‘highly reliable’ communications during hypersonic flight​

  • Researchers from space physics laboratory in Beijing say they made ‘breakthrough’ during ‘multiple’ hypersonic weapon tests
  • They say their system on a high-frequency network could overcome the plasma blackout seen at this extreme speed



Man-made objects such as re-entry capsules and ballistic missiles can experience a communication blackout when they reach hypersonic speed in the atmosphere. Photo: Shutterstock Images
 
It probably makes the decision based on acoustics like Stonefish, and you probably wouldn't deploy it unless there was a live war.
 
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