serenity
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yj-12 is a big issue for J-10, too large, too heavy.
Yeah. J-10 definitely cannot carry YJ-12. Even JH-7 cannot carry YJ-12. Only current air carry of YJ-12 is H-6.
YJ-12 is HUGE. For bomber carry and ship launch.
China's stand off weapons are HGVs, ballistic missiles, and artillery forces. China has more rocket artillery weapon types and units than rest of the world combined. There is no way to understate how many pieces of artillery and rocket PLA has. There is the stand off weapon. PLAAF fighters are mostly tasked with air superiority. From which drones, JH-7, H-6 perform any further large scale bombardment duties that PLARF may want some more air based large scale additional bombardment from. Fighters can perform small scale ones too but China has stockpiled tens of thousands of land attack cruise missiles of just the CJ-10 types. Higher end weapons include HGV.
Each country has very different to slightly different way of war. They have different expected types of wars. Very different approach to war.
Stealth stand off weapons for PLA just hasn't been something they considered important. Instead they considered A2AD weapons important and air superiority role for PLAAF fighters as main task rather than bombing or precision strike although that is doable with KD series missiles and YJ series missiles that can be carried on fighters even as lightweight as J-10.
Western airforces and the types of wars they have been running do place high importance on having SEAD capabilities. China is mainly facing defensive land war for regional threats and A2AD type naval war for US threat. SEAD is nowhere near as important. Naval war is primary importance along with A2AD.
If there is a regional war between India and China over hard to reach Himalayas, then SEAD and stealthy stand off missiles become slightly more important but the plan would be to wipe clean every single Indian base with 10,000 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, HGVs, and fight to gain air superiority, after that, SEAD can be performed by YJ and KD series in huge numbers and bombing of land forces without resistance. GJ-11 stealth UCAV is mainly tasked with SEAD. Totally out of range of short to medium range SAMs which India only has if we ignore S-400. If we account for S-400, those units have to be defeated via electronic attack and stealth based S&D-EAD like GJ-11 but just in higher numbers. J-20 too can perform such a duty. Even if required, rocket forces with over 100km range can wipe clean areas where there are S-400. It becomes a land war and if there is air superiority, the land war is beyond easy in open terrain.
India has zero defence against GJ-11 currently not to mention a combined PLAAF performing S&D-EAD and maintaining air superiority. PLARF is over 20 times the size of Indian artillery and rocket forces. While China has over 30,000 CJ-10 land attack cruise missiles (as hinted stockpiled in case of Taiwan war escalation) India has yet to induct Nirbhay cruise missile.
The most important thing after true stand off range - cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, HGVs, 100km+ rocket artillery, is air superiority. Air superiority is a must to achieve easy land force victory through simply allowing long range artillery to strike their positions while those distance units are protected by ... air superiority.
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