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Pakistan Navy have purchased 120 C-602 long range anti-ship cruise missiles from china to counter the threat posed to the surface fleet of Pakistan navy by the Proliferation of Russian supersonic AntiShip missiles P-800 Oniks / Yakhont / PJ-10 Brahmos (Indian assembled version of Yakhont). Long range of the C-602 AntiShip missile will make sure that Pakistan Navy have first shoot advantage in case of an encounter with the Indian ships equipped with Russian Yakhont AntiShip missiles.
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But instead of that Pakistan should have to develop its own anti-ship ballistic missile system or should have ordered the DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile instead. It's a revolutionary weapon, the world's most powerful anti-ship weapon.
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The DF-21 ASBM has a range of 3000 km and speed of Mach 10. With maneuvering 600-kg warheads, it is proven that NOTHING is able to intercept the DF-21 ASBM.
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As you know China’s anti-ship ballistic missile operational and the ASBM is based on the D-variant of the DF-21 ballistic missile.

09:57 GMT, January 12, 2011 Admiral Robert Willard, Commander of the US Pacific Command, says China’s first-of-a-kind DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) now has a limited operational capability and will soon be fully operational, which he avers is a grave cause for concern to China’s neighbours and the United States.
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In late December, Willard told a Japanese newspaper that, “the anti-ship ballistic missile system in China has undergone extensive testing…it has an operational capability now”. In the interview he added that the Chinese are continuing to test and develop the missile and would probably do so for several more years until it becomes fully operational.

The ASBM is based on the D-variant of the Dong Feng-21 medium range ballistic missile, which is known in the West as the CSS-5 Mod 5, according to the US Department of Defence’s 2010 report on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). “The missile has a range of in excess of 1500 km, is armed with a manoeuvrable warhead, and when integrated with appropriate command and control systems, is intended to provide the PLA the capability to attacks ships, including aircraft carriers, in the western Pacific Ocean”, the report said. Supporting the missile is a network of satellites, radar and unmanned aerial vehicles that can locate ships and guide the weapon, allowing it to hit moving targets, a US Naval Institute report in March 2009 stated.
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Travelling at roughly ten times the speed of sound, the missile would reach its target in under ten minutes. Combined with kinetic energy, the DF-21D has a big enough warhead to disable or completely destroy a supercarrier, the Department of Defence reported. According to the US Naval Institute, ships currently have no means of defending themselves against a ballistic missile attack. However, the US Navy currently has 21 ships fitted with Aegis missiles capable of intercepting short-range ballistic missiles, according to the US Missile Defence Agency.

Development of the ASBM seems to have begun after the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Crisis when China fired missiles around Taiwan, prompting the United States to send aircraft carriers to the region, according to China Signpost. Now China has a way of deterring such carrier groups from entering the Strait.

In August 2009 a DF-21D rocket motor factory was completed and in November 2009 a programme on the ASBM was shown on Chinese television, China Signpost noted. Rather than a total blackout of information, a lot of data on ASBMs has been published over the last five years, according to China Signpost. However, no official comment from China has been forthcoming.

Last week Hong Lei, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence in Beijing, said that China’s military buildup was not a threat to any country and was important in maintaining world peace, Bloomberg reported. China has many reasons to develop an anti-ship ballistic missile, which is a powerful deterrent that could alter the balance of power in a potential conflict. Its greatest use will be in subduing Taiwan and preventing the United States from intervening in case of a crisis in the Taiwan Strait, according to China Signpost.

The ASBM, together with China’s other military developments, threaten more than a dozen countries surrounding China, from Afghanistan to the Philippines, the US Department of Defence says. In September 2010 US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said in a speech that China’s “investments in anti-ship weaponry and ballistic missiles could threaten America’s primary way to project power and help allies in the Pacific -- particularly our forward bases and carrier strike groups.” He reiterated these statements before a visit to China this week, saying he was “concerned about the development of the anti-ship ballistic missile ever since I took this job”, reports the Washington Post.

China’s ASBM is just one more weapon in the country’s burgeoning arsenal. A decade-long surge in defence spending is yield a rash of new missiles, submarines, aircraft and soon an aircraft carrier, said professor Huang Jing Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Diplomacy.
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Last week Vice Admiral Jack Dorsett, head of US Navy intelligence, said the Pentagon had underestimated the speed at which China was developing and fielding anti-ship ballistic missiles, reports Bloomberg. Dorsett confirmed that the DF-21D had reached initial combat capability and confirmed it has been tested over land, but that the US had not observed an over-water test. He called the missile ‘competent’ and ‘capable’.

Also of concern to the United States was China’s recently revealed J-20 stealth fighter. “We knew they were working on the stealth aircraft. What we’ve seen is that they maybe are somewhat further ahead in the development of that aircraft than our intelligence had earlier predicted,” he told the Washington Post this week. Regarding Chinese weapons developments, Gates said, “it clearly has the potential to put our capabilities at risk. We have to pay attention to them. We have to respond appropriately in our programs.” As a result, the Pentagon is investing further in weapons technology to counter the Chinese military build-up.

China’s recent armaments developments are also a cause for concern to Africa as China continues to invest in the continent, and the US worries that economic aid will soon lead to military involvement, according to leaked cables released by Wikileaks in November 2010. According to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China maintains that its trade is responsible for 20% of Africa’s economic growth. The Asian nation has invested heavily in oil and minerals in countries like Sudan, Congo and Angola - roughly a fifth of China’s oil comes from Africa, the Forum reports. In 2009 alone, Chinese companies invested roughly $56.5 billion in Africa, according to Der Spiegel. China has also extended loans worth hundreds of billions and sent thousands of workers to the continent, which is now home to almost a million Chinese. Massive infrastructure development programmes have seen roads, hospitals, ports, airports, railways and stadiums shoot up all over Africa, Der Spiegel says.

Regarding the Chinese military presence in Africa, China ranked third in weapons sales to the African continent between 2003 and 2006 and continues to supply African countries (notably Namibia, Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt and the Congo) with weapons, according to the Centre for Strategic Leadership (CSL), at the US Army War College. China has supplied Sudan with military equipment in return for oil. It has delivered armoured vehicles (Type 59 and 69 tanks and Type 63 armoured transport vehicles), jet aircraft (FC-1 and J-7 fighters and K-8 trainers) to Zimbabwe in addition to riot control equipment and radio jamming equipment to control the political opposition, the CSL says.

Although China does not have a military presence in Africa, it provides military assistance, training and technical advisers to African clients and its navy occasionally calls at African ports. However, Chinese military influence is expanding with the growing number of Chinese defence attaché officers and dramatically increased participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa. China maintains attaché offices in Algeria, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the CSL concludes.

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Pakistan should have to develop its own coast-defence systems likes this

WJ-600 Combat UAV for coast-defence systems

 
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Pakistan should have developed it own

we can develop cruise missiels on our own.
i am sure we can develop anti ship missiles like brahmos or harpooon

we should atleast start developing our own medium range SAM system..
 
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pakistan would wish/dream/or do anything to get there hand on DF-21 but Missile Technology Control Regime(mtcr) wont allow China to sell a missile longer than 300km ,even if it wishes to do
 
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what are the major differences in c602 and c802 other then land mode?
 
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pakistan would wish/dream/or do anything to get there hand on DF-21 but Missile Technology Control Regime(mtcr) wont allow China to sell a missile longer than 300km ,even if it wishes to do

Well said.

we can never get DF-21 from china.

this is something like F-22 of USA.which they dont even sell to its natural ally ISRAEL
 
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Range is 280 km at very low altitude (10 to 30 meter for cruise and about 7meter in terminal flight )remember that due to MTCR range cannot be more than 300km, but if flight profile uses medium altitude like Russian /indian BrahMos than C-602 will be able to cover much more than 300km
 
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The C-602 long-range subsonic anti-ship cruise missile is developed by the CASIC 3rd Academy. The C-602 outperforms most Western and Russian anti-ship missiles in terms of range and warhead mass. The YJ-62 was first offered for export by the China National Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC) during the Defense Systems & Equipment International (DSEI) Land and Naval Systems Exhibition in September 2005. The missile is fitted with a strap-down inertial guidance coupled with GPS, and active radar for the terminal phase. CPMIEC claims that the C-602 is fitted with a frequency agile radar seeker which offers greater resistance to jamming from targeted ship. The active radar seeker has an acquisition range of up to 40km.

The C-602 is a conventional cruise missile design, with mid-body wings that deploy following launch. The fixed ventral air inlet is mounted slightly forward of the cruciform tail fins. The missile is 6.1 meters long (without the 0.9 meter-long launch booster), and weighs 1,140kg. The solid propellant booster weighs an additional 210kg. The C-602 has a cruise speed of Mach 0.6, carries a 300kg HE blast warhead, is powered by a small turbojet, and has a stated range of 280km, with the missile flying at an altitude of 30 meters during the cruise phase of an engagement. In the terminal phase, the missile descends to a height of seven meters, and it can be launched from truck-mounted launchers, from warships as well as from medium multi-role combat aircraft.C-602 anti-ship missile employs a cylinder-shape launcher.
 
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actually i meant difference in role and how in one superior to another?
 
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Description: The JY-62 is a highly subsonic, long-range, anti-ship missile developed by HaiYing Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy in China for use by surface ships. The YJ-62, C-602 export name, was first deployed by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in 2004 onboard the Type 052C destroyer. The missile guidance system consists of a combination of GPS/INS plus active radar seeker at the terminal phase of flight (approx 40 km). Despite using a similar designation, there are no ties between the YJ-62 and YJ-6 anti-ship missile.

The YJ-62 active radar seeker uses an agile frequency antenna to better withstand the effects of electromagnetic jamming. The propulsion system consists of a booster rocket motor for launch and a turbofan/turbojet engine for cruise. The flight altitude varies from 30 meters at cruise to only 10 meters during the terminal attack phase. The YJ-62 missile may be the basis for a future PLAN land attack cruise missile comparable to US Navy's Tomahawk. In fact, the YJ-62 can be fitted with an alternative seeker to enable engagement of land targets.
Specifications

Dimensions: Length 7 m

Weights: Warhead 300 kg (661 lb), Weight 1,350 kg (2,976 lb)

Performance: Cruise Speed Mach 0.90 (1,076 kph), Max Range 280 km (151 nm)

Other: Number of Stages 2

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Description: The JY-62 is a highly subsonic, long-range, anti-ship missile developed by HaiYing Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy in China for use by surface ships. The YJ-62, C-602 export name, was first deployed by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in 2004 onboard the Type 052C destroyer. The missile guidance system consists of a combination of GPS/INS plus active radar seeker at the terminal phase of flight (approx 40 km). Despite using a similar designation, there are no ties between the YJ-62 and YJ-6 anti-ship missile.

The YJ-62 active radar seeker uses an agile frequency antenna to better withstand the effects of electromagnetic jamming. The propulsion system consists of a booster rocket motor for launch and a turbofan/turbojet engine for cruise. The flight altitude varies from 30 meters at cruise to only 10 meters during the terminal attack phase. The YJ-62 missile may be the basis for a future PLAN land attack cruise missile comparable to US Navy's Tomahawk. In fact, the YJ-62 can be fitted with an alternative seeker to enable engagement of land targets.
Specifications

Dimensions: Length 7 m

Weights: Warhead 300 kg (661 lb), Weight 1,350 kg (2,976 lb)

Performance: Cruise Speed Mach 0.90 (1,076 kph), Max Range 280 km (151 nm)

Other: Number of Stages 2
 
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C-602 was bought as a stop gap weapon till naval variant of hatf-7, babur is inducted, it was recently tested in a canister for naval use.
 
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Reference:
Pakistan successfully test-fires anti-ship ‘Zarb’ missile - The Express Tribune


Pakistan Navy conducted on Saturday a successful test-fire of shore-based anti-ship missile ‘Zarb’, a statement released by Director General Public Relations said.

The missile was launched from coastal site and successfully hit the surface target in the Arabian Sea, the statement added.

Felicitating the Naval staff, Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah said the launch of new missile system wass part of Pak Navy’s continuous effort to enhance its capabilities, and terming the successful test as hallmark of Pakistan Navy’s preparedness.

Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, who was also present at the occasion, said with this successful test launch significant capability has been added to the Pakistan Navy’s arsenal which would further bolster the defence mechanism of the country and contribute towards peace and stability in the region.

(Thread re-ad due to loss of data April 10th on defence.pk
 
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